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Rematog wrote: 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.

fission plant? lets add up the numbers, lets say 1M for building it and 2M for installation, yes those numbers are several times larger then given but lets play with worst case estimates, that 3M for 5MW or $.6 per w or $600 per kw, still below coal by a half, not including that it will cost maybe a few hundred dollars oh lets say at worse $5K to fuel it with boron and hydrogen for a year of operation, how much does it cost per year to power a coal power plant per megawatt?