Reply To: Fusion Oil

[Rematog]

Just reading through this thread, and…

Viking Coder’s post on prior page uses capital cost of $300k / 5MW of Focus Fusion. This is not correct. This number is what Mr. Lerner, has, in other posts, stated as the cost to make a FF module. That is NOT an installed cost.

I’m know I’ve stated this elsewhere, but it will cost money to install them. We might disagree on what the cost split is, but basic rule of thumb estimates used professionally for this type of work is between 60/40 and 40/60 for materials (FF module) and installation cost. This back calculates to an installed cost of between $500k and $750k per module total installed cost.

I see so many bad estimates done due to ignoring installation costs, and the results are generally ugly. I would urge the board to use installed costs in this kind of discussion.

By the way, $1/watt is way low for a fission plant. I would feel that between $2-2.5K per kw capacity would be more in line.

Coal, which is cheaper to build than nucs’s, currently runs about $1,500/kw, based on a couple of year old project I was involved with ($1.1 billion for a 750MW unit). That price included SCR, wet scrubber and carbon injection baghouse, the back end air pollution control equipment needed to capture NOX, SO2 and Mercury/particulate, respectively.