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ailabs wrote: … focus fusion will provide energy at $60/kW vs. $1,000/kW…

That’s not the energy cost, it’s the plant cost. You have to add plant decommissioning and recycling costs and multiply by the amount of plant to keep a whole number of people employed and maximise the power-to-business-rates ratio, add the salaries and business rates for running the plant throughout its lifetime + service charges for recycling waste, etc. Finally divide that by the expected number of Joules that you will supply from that plant during its lifetime. That’s the generation cost

Now add a profit margin and cover the transmission losses. That’s the wholesale price.

Add the margin and costs of the grid power retailer including their marketing and what-have-you, then add the sales tax. That is the retail price per Joule.

Estimate the risk from the perspective of the potential credit purchaser and deduct from the above retail energy cost accordingly – that gives you the coupon price, including sales tax – assuming that the labour to manage this is donated by FFS staffers. Estimating what value would have been transferred from LPP to FFS for tax returns and auditing is left as an exercise to the reader. I for one am glad that I would not have to do any of that part if this is even legal :o)