The National Forum   Donate   Your Account   On Line Opinion   Forum   Blogs   Polling   About   
The Forum - On Line Opinion's article discussion area



Syndicate
RSS/XML


RSS 2.0

Main Articles General

Sign In      Register

The Forum > Article Comments > A dose of honesty in the housing affordability debate > Comments

A dose of honesty in the housing affordability debate : Comments

By Rex Drabik, published 18/10/2017

Prominent businessman and philanthropist Dick Smith recently released a booklet designed to tell the full story on housing.

  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. Page 2
  4. All
Don't worry, when the power goes off there will be plenty of cheap
housing for the young and fit above the 10th floor.
Posted by Bazz, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 3:38:48 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Alan
aha your PKH adds up to pkwh.
"..a molten salt reactor of the same power output as the Diablo Canyon reactors could cost between 5.46c/kWh to 4.72c/kWh.( Au 8-9 cents).
A second approach can be taken to estimate the cost of a LFTR. The cost of building a LFTR can also be estimated by analyzing the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE)..
Au 1.98 cents/pkwh. "

That looks more like guesstimate than science.
Posted by nicknamenick, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 3:50:39 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Nick, you need to report your concerns about guesswork to economist/Professor Hargreaves and Author of, Cheaper than coal, Thorium. Suggest you get online and listen to his, watch my lips, words!

Whom I quote for a 1.98 cents P.K.H, as the median! Or if you prefer, just a tad south of 2 cents!

Incidentally, thanks for the opportunity for the segway into, Cheaper than coal thorium! And its highly credentialed Author, economist and Ivy League Professor Hargreaves.

You mentioned Oak Ridge laboratories but left out the newer more recent, larger operational prototype at shippingport?

And the even more recent 350 M.W. FUJI. Or that our near northern neighbor, Indonesia. May have a working walk away safe, molten salt thorium reactor, decades before we do and all the competitive advantages that would give them!

Given there is an all too often, a cascading energy component in every good or service we buy or use!

And if that component was a 1,000 K.H? And magnified by 100% with each move up the distribution chain, from the manufacturer, to the distributor, to the retailer, then you?

I'd sooner the starting point or wholesale price, was 1.98 cents as median P.K.H, than 24 or 30 cents!

And at 24 cents P.K.H, possibly as much as a $1,000.00 by the time it gets to you, as the passed on up, energy component!

On the other hand, 1.98 cents P.K.H. Just a tad south of $8.00, using the same calculation! Understand?

Nothing and nobody untouched or quarantined, other than the politicians who foist their idiotically incoherent ideologies on us. Via their imposed regulatory framework, which they sign off on, if not actually create?

Even as they sit, argue, hurl abuse, deleted expletives, work, play or commute, in whole of life pampered air conditioned comfort And in collar and tie/suits for heaven's sake!

Little wonder their world is chock-a-block full of asinine climate change sceptics?

Obnoxiously oblivious to and quarantined from the real world, struggle street and the very real consequences of their ideologically driven decisions!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Wednesday, 18 October 2017 5:25:19 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
.Your maths juggling skill is unmatched , numbers are plucked , multiplied and faked with dazzling speed.
" 1.98 cents as median P.K.H, than 24 or 30 cents!
And at 24 cents P.K.H, possibly as much as a $1,000.00 by the time it gets to you, as the passed on up, energy component!"

But I was most astonished by this mathematics:

"On the other hand, 1.98 cents P.K.H. Just a tad south of $8.00, using the same calculation! Understand?"
My cat whispered that it's $80 .

".. 1000 MWe MSR-FUJI (super-FUJI) is estimated the total electricity generation cost about 3 cents/KWh. In general the economic performance of a smaller plant may be expected to be worse than that of a larger plant. This factor has not been evaluated till now. " Furukawa, K. et al. “Molten Salt Reactor for Sustainable Nuclear Power – MSR

Japanese kenshira boru : "estimate" " juggling . number plucking . pie in the sky"
Posted by nicknamenick, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 6:19:09 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. Page 2
  4. All

About Us :: Search :: Discuss :: Feedback :: Legals :: Privacy