At 08:53 PM 5/27/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote:
At 04:52 PM 5/27/2011, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
Cost to refuel is crucial. $5000 for 4800 hours run time is $1.04
per hour, or $0.41 per kWh, compared to $0.15 from my local power
company. Is Defkalion losing money on every E-Cat but making up for
it with volume?
This cost was, of course, based on the $5000 estimated for an E-Cat,
as if refueling were at maximum cost. It looks like "refueling"
consists of replacing the core of the thing, the rest is just a piece
of plumbing with, perhaps, some heating elements.
Rossi said (extracted from multiple posts):
3) do you know, approximately, how much will cost the recharge of
the module after the 6 month of working ?
3- 100 $ <============== $0.02/hr = $0.0087 / kWH (at 2.4kW)
Okay. What's the life time of the E-Cat? It may become obsolete,
rapidly, by better units, but let's give it five years just for grins.
The investment is somewhat speculative in certain ways. Installation
will cost money. I'm thinking of an amortization at about $1800 per
year. Let's assume continuous power generation: That's $0.20 per hour
for the device. Not counting refueling.
If it can be refueled for $100, then why does the E-Cat itself, which
is not a lot more than plumbing and some heating elements and control
circuits, so expensive?
At 2.4 kW, it looks like the cost per kWh is roughly $0.10, plus at
6:1, I'd have to pay maybe $0.03 for the control power at 15 cents
per kWh. While decent, that's not spectacular, by any means. Not
enough to move me to buy one and use it. Besides, I rent my
apartment. But I'd suppose that one could make a portable E-Cat installation.
