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Fossil fuel power stations typically cost about $2.1 dollars per watt to build solar stations around $7 at present. The efficiency is increasing and costs are falling. This of course does not represent the cost to the consumer. In addition it does not take into account all the various other costs and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Fuel (fossil stations), poor sunlight (solar stations). Maintenance costs are similar for single plants but solar stations do not have the capacity of fossil fuel stations.
Large scale stations cost approximately $5 million each.
The average cost of building a hydro power plant on the Columbia river is 559,220,000.
It cost 8 billion dollars to construct the Port of Valdez, the pumping stations and 800 miles of 48 inch pipeline.
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To be able to answer this question more information is necessary, in particular more details about the location of the co-generation station and its proposed size.This is no different to saying that it is necessary to have a considerable amount of further information before it is possible to answer the naively simple question "How much does it cost to build a house?" or even "How long is a ball of string?". The Related Link shown below gives considerable details about co-generation stations, aka as CHP (Combined Heat and Power) stations.
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Very. Every foot of trackage must be a linear motor. That takes a lot of copper.Which is not cheap.And don't forget the power requirements ... holding up a whole train is not cheap.
there are pros and cons for using nuclear power (as with all power sources). pros of using nuclear power are: it can produce at lot more power than a combustion reaction can e.g burning coal, uranium and plutonium (used in the reactors of nuclear power stations) is fairly cheap. cons of using of using nuclear power include: the waste products of nuclear reactions are incredibly dangerous and take thousands of years to become un-reactive, nuclear power stations also have hefty maintenance requirements, cost a lot to build and don't last as long as more conventional power stations. So to address your question- people are divided over whether the pros of nuclear power outweigh the cons. it may be realistic to nuclear power, however it is very unlikely that it will be the world's main power source.