Energy Output – MW & GW

[Rematog]

Cost of Power and implementation of Focus Fusion on a large scale to replace existing coal, oil, natural gas and fission power plants.

The attached is a calculation of the cost of power from Focus Fusion.

Assumptions:

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[Rematog]

I’m sorry, this forum does not allow attachments. I’m copying the spreadsheet into this text file. I can see it is not very readable. I apologize for this and ask for suggestions.

Plant size, net MW 2x 600MW 1,200

Number of 5MW FF blocks: 240
Avg Capital cost of 5 MW block $1,000,000

Capital Cost of Plant $240,000,000
Cost/Kw Capacity $200

Maintenace required
1 day/4-weeks 12
1 week/year 5

Total Down time, hrs 408

Capacity Factor 95%

Coal plant Cap Factor 80-85%
(for comparison)

4-week Maintenace
1 Supv @$60/hr $480
4 crafts @$45/hr $1,440
$1,920

Materials (1/4% of Cap Cost) $2,500
$4,420

Annual Cost (12/yr) $53,040

Annual Overhaul
1 Supv @$60/hr $6,600
8 crafts @$45/hr $39,600
$46,200

Materials 2% of cap cost 20,000
$66,200

Annual Overhaul Maint Cost/block $119,240

Total Maint/plant $28,617,600

Overhead Annual Salary Annaul Cost
Plant Mgr $120,000 $180,000
Maint Mgr $100,000 $150,000
Ops Mgr $100,000 $150,000
Engineers (4) $80,000 $480,000
Nuc. Physics (1) $100,000 $150,000
Safety Coor (1) $60,000 $90,000
Shift Supv (5) $70,000 $525,000
Operators (4/shift) $50,000 $1,200,000
Security (3/shift) $30,000 $720,000
Maint Supv Inc. in weekly costs
Controls techs (3 ea) $70,000 $315,000
Office Mgr $50,000 $75,000
Acct Clerck 60,000 $90,000
Gen Clerks (2) $40,000 $120,000
Warehouse crew (2) $40,000 $120,000
Purchasing Agent $60,000 $90,000

$4,455,000

Allowance for site maint (grounds, etc) $2,000,000

Fuels, Office supplies, etc $1,000,000

Total Operating Cost $36,072,600

Power Generated
MW Hrs @ 90% Cap Factor 9,460,800 MW-hr

Op Cost/MW hr $3.81/MW-hr

Carrying cost @ 12% ROI $28,800,000

TOTAL COST/YEAR $64,872,600

Total Busbar Cost $/MW-hr $6.86

[Rematog]

I apologize again for the prior post. I could find no way (spaces, etc.) to format the data so it was easily readable. If there is somewhere on this board to post PDF and Excel versions, please let me know, and I’ll post them.

Behind my assumptions

[Rematog]

Why Repower an existing power plant?

One: Focus fusion is not

[Rematog]

Just posting this as an example of what kind of infrastructure we are talking about here….

This is from POWER magazine, one of the two main trade magazines for the Electrical power industry.

European body calls for heavy grid investment over next five years

Transmission service operators in Europe should devote about $26.52 billion to grid development over the next five years to ensure security and meet European energy policy objectives, the Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE) said last week.

The Brussels-based UCTE, which coordinates the interests of transmission system operators in 24 European countries, seeks to guarantee the security of the interconnected power system. The body recently published its first transmission development plan (PDF), which surveys cross-border and internal investments that have so far been submitted to member transmission service operators.

Taking into account expected decommissioning of plants and 80 GW of expected wind power, the UCTE projects that installed capacity in Europe will exceed 220 GW while consumption for the same period will increase only 90 GW.

But if consumption follows this low growth rate

[Brian H]

Rematog wrote: I apologize again for the prior post. I could find no way (spaces, etc.) to format the data so it was easily readable. If there is somewhere on this board to post PDF and Excel versions, please let me know, and I’ll post them.

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Not directly on the board, but you can use this http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour4.html to make them accessible with a link.

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