[Boot Hill]

Delivered natural gas costs for large public utilities are currently less than $5/MMBTU (million BTU). A modern combined cycle, combustion turbine generator typically runs at a heat rate (efficiency) of 6800 BTU (per kW-hr). This means they generate power at 3.4¢/kW-hr.

--Boot Hill

[Boot Hill]

BTW, the numbers I gave you in post #70 are California numbers. They were just confirmed for me by a manager at the Moss Landing power plant (2538 MW!!!)

--Boot Hill

[DB]

Then I'm still getting screwed on my electric bill...

Currently it is claimed that large-scale solar electric energy generation costs run about 20 cents a kilowatt-hour.

Not competitive but improving (which I acknowledged in my first post).

I also said that if the costs of those $700 100 Watt panels fell to $50 in high volume it would be a good deal (as in cost effective and reasonably practical to use). Actually at $50 a panel it would be a really good deal.