An interesting response

[hkhenson]

At 12:00 PM 4/17/2008, Dan M wrote:

>Nothing works 100% of the time, but lets assume a 95% efficiency, or running
>8322 hours/year.  The cost is, then, about $39 per kWh.

If you do it this way, the cost the next year is zero.  That's not 
good accounting.  These things should run for decades.  If you wrote 
it off in 10 years, it would be $3.90 a kWh.

And what kind of a deal would the Russians give you if you wanted to 
launch 110 of these a day?

Keith