L.E.A.F. (Low Emission Alternative Fuel) Generator

[Dleg]

Holy crap, $6 billion for 600 MW? You could get ten times the capacity in a natural gas facility for that price. Sounds like it might be even more expensive than nuclear.

Numbers Im seeing are 6.8 times more costly than a natural gas plant per kW and 23% higher than a nuke plant. The cost overrun was 3.4 billion Sounds like a clusterfuck to reduce co2 emissions using a still unproven tecnology. Hope it works.

That's amazing.

Of course, the argument could be made that it was so expensive because it's a prototype... but still.

 

[engineergurl]

I still don't think it's a bad idea to at least diversify our power supply resources. We really don't want to become dependent on one specific fuel (especially if it is a non-renewable resource) for both economic and environmental reasons.