Using Heat Engines We can choose to restructure our society and move people in trains and buses rather than cars. But there is a limit. In the end it boils down to a choice between more people, more growth, more GNP more CO2, more pollution, more cancer, more asthma, more deaths, and more heat into the environment, versus unemployment and economic stagnation. All the proposed solutions are based on false economics and Government subsidies i.e. taxing Peter to pay Paul. None of these plans will counter or even slow Man's heating of the environment. Once this develops, our vaulted politicians who today tout their knee jerk green plans will be tarred and feathered and ran out of the country.
The Cold Engine Advantage
Capital Cost Recovery in Years
● Coal 40 t0 50
● Nuclear 80 to 100
● Wind 18 to 20
● Cold Engine 2
Build Time in years
● Coal 10 to 15
● Nuclear 10 t0 20
● Wind 1.5 to 2
● Cold Engine 1
Availability of Fuel
● Coal Coal & mine needed
● Nuclear Ore & mine needed
● Wind UNRELIABLE
● Cold Engine 24 / 7 everywhere
Fuel Costs
● Coal Very High
● Nuclear Very High
● Wind None
● Cold Engine None
Maintenance Costs
● Coal Very High
● Nuclear High
● Wind Very High
● Cold Engine Small
On Site Staffing Costs
● Coal Very High
● Nuclear Very High
● Wind None
● Cold Engine None
Reliability and Down Time
● Coal down 4 weeks
● Nuclear down 4 weeks
● Wind intermittent
● Cold Engine no shutdown
Plant location
● Coal water & mine
● Nuclear water & isolated
● Wind wind & isolated
● Cold Engine in city
The New Electrical Power Industry
Now by Law the Grid has to purchase electricity from small generating power plants .
Build Time & Economics
Cold Engine power plants can be built in one year without Government Subsidies. Consider the power shortage in Japan, the Cold engine is the only economical and timely means of resolving this crisis. In Japan the market is huge. In Canada and the US the cold engine is the most economical and profitable means of generating electricity.
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High Voltage Grid
● Coal Needs grid
● Nuclear Needs grid
● Wind Needs grid
● Cold Engine no grid
Plant Mobility Is it mobile?
● Coal Fixed
● Nuclear Fixed;
● Wind Fixed
● Cold Engine Mobile
The US department of Energy, recognizing that ALL power plants were Government subsidized, undertook a study to determine the real cost of producing electricity. One study dealt with coal and natural gas. The study was undertaken by the National Energy Technology Laboratory. This study was completed in 2011 but used data and costs from 2007.
In 2008 the Capital Cost of ALL major construction projects WORLD WIDE jumped 30%.
The study is entitled "COST AND PERFORMANCE BASELINE FOR FOSSIL ENERGY PLANTS VOLUME 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMERY ... ". The power plants were in Montana and Wyoming. In 2007, electricity was being bought in Alberta by the Grid for $0.07 k Watt -hour. The DOE study analyzed 24 coal power plants and 4 natural gas power plants.
The cost of electricity or COE from the 24 coal plants were as follows.
Only six of the 24 coal power plants could sell electricity at 7 cents a kW hour in 2007 and would break even or make a very, very small profit. If these plants were NOT subsidized and were privately funded, 18 coal fired power plants would be running at a loss for their entire life.
Fuel costs for coal are 12% to 15% of the selling price of electricity.
Of the four natural gas power plants DOE studied, two had a COE of 6.6 cents a kW- hour and two were at 9.5 cents a kW- hour. The cost of fuel was 4.8 and 5.6 cents a Kw hour. Fuel costs alone for natural gas vary between 68% to 80% of the selling price of electricity. In 2007 only two of the four natural gas power plants would have broken even. Two of the gas power plants would have made 2.5 cents a kW hour.
A gas fired power plant is a very iffy investment. If the project comes in over budget, the plant is doomed to forever run at a loss to simply recoup some of the capital investment and hope the economics will improve.
Even if the project comes in under budget, a sudden rise in the price of natural gas will turn a very small profit venture into a huge money losing pit. The plant would have to be shut down until the price of gas dropped sufficiently to make the plant profitable. In fact this HAS happen in Edmonton. In the 1960's a gas fired power plant in Edmonton was shut down and never reopened for this very reason.