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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (180550)9/15/2013 8:24:00 PM
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micro Distributed Generation

Even as I await the 11:30 show to see if the Costa crunches, I am working on the economics section of the 300 page technical report I will use to approach "angel investors" for my little micro distributed generation project.

I am writing about "arbing" the REGAL spread. The would be the REtail GAs eLectric spread. You know....you pay so much for NG comoing into the house and so much for electric, and there is a spread there. Here in Silver Spring, MD, if my NG powered device can hit 50% thermal efficiency, then on the margin it saves 63% on the electric costs. And that is before even considering recycling the waste heat.

But that is on the margin.

If this thing can be sufficiently reliable, then you can take out the hedge shears and cut the power lines into the house. That will not only get rid of the energy portion of the electric bill, but the monthly connection/distribution charge as well. That piece runs 40%-55%.

So I know that it is very mean spirited of me, but the more half built nukes get billed tot he rate base, then the greater the attraction of taking out the hedge shears. Music to my ears.

It is sad for the country that nukes have such uncertainty. There is much talk about thorium being the wave of the future. I am by no means a liberal, but if you think about that.....$2 trillion.....spent in the Middle East wars securing oil supply and wonder if we had thrown that dough instead at thorium, you might conclude that the US would be in a vastly superior place than we are now. You know....wouldn't be drawing red lines and then tripping over them.
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