Reply To: Cap and Trade

[Aeronaut]

Phil’s Dad wrote: Aeronaut; I agree with your basic premise but I think you underestimate what could be done for $3trillion. 5,000 to 15,000 FF installations? Rematog says “At the most optimistic, (20MW power blocks with installed cost of $500k ea), repowering America’s electrical generating capacity will cost about 30 BILLION dollars”. On that basis $3trillion gives you 6 million units or 1,000 times the total US requirement. How would that rate on the score card that started this thread.

100 times the US needs just might be enough to repower most of the world’s population. Now all we have to do is sell the various special interest groups the idea of spending an hour or two in a garage with a running car or charcoal fire. (Dramatization, not smart-aleck ;-P ). Wouldn’t hurt to show them how they can actually make more by promoting FF. This would hopefully show up in favorable political/regulatory environment…

Remember, it’s possible to show laboratory breakeven in 2010 and a crude engineering prototype above Q in 2011.