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sagan

11/15/06 1:37 PM

#3051 RE: PaperProphet #3050

I agree the cost is prohibitive for lasrge scale. In may last post I indicated that I beleive the bread and butter of the company will be small scale use as a suplement for small companies or off grid power.
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vindication

11/15/06 2:01 PM

#3056 RE: PaperProphet #3050

No offense, but that was a dumb and misleading post. You know way too much about the EC V and IHDR to be going through the exercise of scaling it to the size of the Hoover Dam.

The whole principle behind being able to scale the EC V upwards is to utilize low flows to create high energy. The idea behind the scaling (which you know, but conveniently choose to ignore) is NOT to make the EC V bigger, but rather to utilize the fact that one slice of the EC V can produce 7.5 kW of electricity from a low-flow source (note: the Hoover Dam does not fit the bill), and 4 slices can produce 30 kW from the SAME low-flow source. So theoritically, lining up ~134 EC V slices can produce 1 megawatt of constant energy from that SAME low-flow source. Granted, in practice that would probably not feasible, but that is the theory behind scalability. No hydroturbine can produce that much energy from a low-flow source, no matter how much/little that hydroturbine costs.

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bedwards1000

11/15/06 2:49 PM

#3059 RE: PaperProphet #3050

From your post I assume that you did a complete cost analysis on the re-construction of the Hover Dam at today’s labor rates and prices. I do think you are wasting your time here if you have those abilities.

As to the second part of your post regarding all the costs to connect to the grid. People are doing it all the time with solar panels and they cost about $5/watt of power produced.
http://store.altenergystore.com/Solar-Electric-Panels/150-Watts-Up-Solar-Panels/c741/

You are trying to scare people with the unknown.