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Coal Fired
Nuclear
Solar Tower
25
1000 MW/hr
50 MW/hr
25
1000MW/hr
200MW/hr
25
1000MW/hr
55MW/hr
60
200 MW/hr
5MW/hr
50 MW/hr
900
90.00%
150MW/hr
650
65.00%
130MW/hr
815
81.50%
0
195
97.50%
Design Cost
Test Plant
Materials/Equipment Cost
Construction Cost
Labor cost
$100,000,000
Not required
$700,000,000
$250,000,000
$250,000,000
$500,000,000
$500,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$500,000,000
$400,000,000
$750,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$500,000,000
$500,000,000
$150,000,000
$150,000,000
$400,000,000
$250,000,000
$90,000,000
$1,300,000,000
$2,900,000,000
$3,750,000,000
$1,040,000,000
$174,000,000.00
$300,000,000
$250,000,000
$150,000,000
$250,000,000
$225,000,000.00
$400,000,000
$250,000,000
$300,000,000
$375,000,000
$62,400,000.00
$0
$0
$250,000
$10,000,000
OPERATIONAL COSTS
Interest @ 6%
$78,000,000.00
Fuel Cost
$200,000,000
Fuel/waste Disposal cost
$100,000,000
Water use (including mining process)
$100,000,000
Maintenance costs
$150,000,000
1.35T per MW
11,826,000
$591,300,000
$1,219,300,000
0.6T per MW
5,256,000
$262,800,000
$1,386,800,000
0.4T per MW
3,504,000
$175,200,000
$1,725,200,000
0T per MW
0
$0
$72,650,000
$1,502,800,000
$1,875,200,000
$89,983,333
5,694,000
$263.93
$0.26
$0.14
7,139,400
$262.66
$0.26
$0.14
1,708,200
$52.68
$0.05
$0.14
7,884,000
$161.25
$0.16
$0.14
Profit/Loss on installation
based on market rates of 0.14c
kw/h for 15 years
-$2,513,100,000 -$10,584,600,000
-$13,135,260,000 $2,237,470,000
$1,193,300,000
$27,594,000,000 $19,929,000,000
$24,987,900,000 $14,348,880,000
Life cost
$29,832,500,000 $33,220,000,000
$41,255,000,000 $1,655,000,000
$1,328,800,000
$1,650,200,000
$27,583,333
-$89,540,000
-$531,640,000
-$650,684,000
$211,564,667
-6.89%
-18.33%
-17.35%
20.34%
Combined Solar
tower and PV
panels
Geothermal steam
Wave Power
Concetrated
Solar PV
Parabolic
Concentrated
Solar steam
Concentrated
Solar Tower
(steam)
60
350MW/hr
10MW/hr
15
300MW/hr
15MW/hr
30
200MW/hr
10MW/hr
15
150MW/hr
5MW/hr
15
200MW/hr
5MW/hr
15
100MW/hr
5MW/hr
0
340
97.14%
15MW/hr
270
90.00%
10MW/hr
180
90.00%
0
145
96.67%
0
195
97.50%
2MW/hr
93
93.00%
$220,000,000
$250,000,000
$500,000,000
$350,000,000
$130,000,000
$250,000,000
$500,000,000
$550,000,000
$350,000,000
$200,000,000
$150,000,000
$250,000,000
$600,000,000
$350,000,000
$300,000,000
$150,000,000
$150,000,000
$450,000,000
$250,000,000
$190,000,000
$250,000,000
$250,000,000
$600,000,000
$250,000,000
$300,000,000
$150,000,000
$250,000,000
$550,000,000
$250,000,000
$200,000,000
$1,450,000,000
$1,850,000,000
$1,650,000,000 $1,190,000,000
$1,650,000,000 $1,400,000,000
$87,000,000.00
$0
$0
$250,000
$20,000,000
$111,000,000.00
$0
$30,000,000
$15,000,000
$50,000,000
$99,000,000.00
$0
$75,000,000
$0
$15,000,000
$71,400,000.00
$0
$0
$0
$25,000,000
$99,000,000.00
$0
$0
$5,000,000
$25,000,000
$84,000,000.00
$0
$0
$5,000,000
$25,000,000
0T per MW
0
$0
$107,250,000
0.15T per MW
394,200
$19,710,000
$225,710,000
0T per MW hour
0
$0
$189,000,000
0T per MW
0
$0
$96,400,000
0T per MW
0
$0
$129,000,000
0T per MW
0
$0
$114,000,000
$131,416,667
$349,043,333
$244,000,000
$175,733,333
$239,000,000
$207,333,333
2,978,400
$44.12
$0.04
$0.14
2,365,200
$147.57
$0.15
$0.14
1,576,800
$154.74
$0.15
$0.14
1,270,200
$138.35
$0.14
$0.14
1,708,200
$139.91
$0.14
$0.14
814,680
$254.50
$0.25
$0.14
$4,283,390,000
-$268,730,000
-$348,720,000
$31,420,000
$2,220,000
-$1,399,172,000
$44,416,667
$238,043,333
$145,000,000
$104,333,333
$140,000,000
$123,333,333
$25,018,560,000
$4,966,920,000
$6,622,560,000 $2,667,420,000
$3,587,220,000 $1,710,828,000
$2,665,000,000
$3,570,650,000
$4,350,000,000 $1,565,000,000
$2,100,000,000 $1,850,000,000
$372,559,333
$93,084,667
$75,752,000
$73,494,667
$99,148,000
-$9,278,133
25.69%
5.03%
4.59%
6.18%
6.01%
-0.66%
Wind Farms
25
200MW/hr
10MW/hr
0
190
95.00%
$100,000,000
Not required
$800,000,000
$300,000,000
$150,000,000
$1,350,000,000
$81,000,000.00
$0
$0
$0
$100,000,000
0T per MW
0
$0
$181,000,000
$235,000,000
1,664,400
$141.19
$0.14
$0.14
-$29,760,000
$154,000,000
$5,825,400,000
$3,850,000,000
$79,016,000
5.85%