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To: LLCF who wrote (65297)	2/7/2001 10:46:41 AM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 436258

I'm not sure, but you can't count on gas staying at $10 for the length of time that would be required to pay for the increased capital cost ($/kw is several times) -- NPR also left the impression that a combustion turbine was wasteful of the energy -- guess they never heard of a combined cycle or anything about economic dispatch either Guy they got from the lab talking about 7 - 10% transmission losses sounded like a fool -- you only get to 1/2 those numbers after u include the losses at your distribution transformer ... No mention of fuel diversity either -- you heat with nat gas and then get a fuel cell you are exposed purely to the price of nat gas -- if some of your gen comes from coal or nuke -- you don't get killed when nat gas goes through the roof Trade journal I got isn't much better -- felt like staying up last night and writing letters to both of 'em -- there is sooo much misinformation out there concerning energy issues. No wonder we don't have a decent national policy I heard today that less than 1% of Ca gen was from coal -- NPR probably got it wrong -- but if that's true -- they are a heap more screwed up out there than I thought