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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
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- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 05:08:47 GMT
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- dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
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- >> That's because combustion turbines are low capacity compared to their
- >> cost.
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- >Really? Is that why they are the prefered fossil units for peaking power?
- >I would have thought that *low* capital cost for a given power output
- >would be prefered there.
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- Why? Because they can come up almost instantly and can produce more power
- than practical diesel generators and can burn natural gas. Capital
- cost does not matter much when the issue is shaving off a peak demand
- that would otherwise necessitate a brownout.
-
- >I'm calling you on this $250/kW figure. Please give a literature
- >reference that justifies it.
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- Like you did regarding gas turbines? Unlike you, I don't have to go trolling
- in the library to know a bit about the power biz. If there happens to be
- something I don't know about, all I have to do is pick up the phone and
- call any of several old colleagues in the business. Invaluable
- resource, dontcha know. USCEA does play by the old rules which would not
- apply in the event the country decided to play nuclear again in a
- serious way.
-
- John
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