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Do you have concrete capex and opex numbers for ammonia-from-electricity plants? I understand we should expect those to go down over time because of the learni
by kragen 2y ago
Do you have concrete capex and opex numbers for ammonia-from-electricity plants? I understand we should expect those to go down over time because of the learning curve, but I don't even know their order of magnitude right now. It would also be nice to have an idea of how much efficiency the electrolyzers lose when operated intermittently instead of continuously (so, for example, you can't keep them at their optimal temperature). But, since we're presupposing that intermittent electrical energy will be very cheap, efficiency is less important than capex per output and non-energy opex.
Supporting your point about solar panels continuing to be cheap, "mainstream" panels went up to 0.11€ per peak watt last month: https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preisindex/ https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis... which was a new historic low price in September and down 21% from 0.14€/Wp in February of last year, itself a historic record low price at the beginning of last year.
The last time something like this happened to the energy supply, it was James Watt's steam-engine.