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Comparative costs of competitive fuels
Leland W. McCloud
Published
1951
by Bureau of Business Research, Dept. of Economics and Business Administration, West Virginia University in Morgantown
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Written in
Edition Notes
West Virginia University bulletin, ser. 51. no. 12-4.
| Contributions | West Virginia University. Bureau of Business Research. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | HD9544 .M35 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | v, 89 p. |
| Number of Pages | 89 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL200838M |
| LC Control Number | a 51009524 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 1895399 |
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Get this from a library. Comparative costs of competitive fuels; a study of fuel consmption by manufacturing industries in the United States.
[Leland W McCloud; West Virginia University. Bureau of Business Research.]. Comparative Costs of Competitive Fuels. A Study of Fuel Consumption by Manufacturing Industries in the United States.
[Leland W. McCloud] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying : Leland W. McCloud. Comparative cost analysis of algal oil production for biofuels Article. capital and operating costs minus the revenues derived from all co-product as shown in Eq. approach becoming. For example, Jaramillo et al. [17] performed a comparative analysis of the production costs and life cycle GHG emissions of liquid fuels from coal and natural gas.
Bamufleh et al. [18] studied. Finally, the comparative cost of cooking cost is estimated by adding together the stove costs, the fuel cash costs, and the value of fuel collection time (see figure). The results presented in the figure are quite interesting. It is pretty obvious that biomass fuels across the board are less expensive than the petroleum fuels.
Liquid transportation fuels derived from coal and natural gas could help the United States reduce its dependence on petroleum. The fuels could be produced domestically or imported from fossil fuel-rich countries. The goal of this paper is to determine the life-cycle GHG emissions of coal- and natural gas-based Fischer−Tropsch (FT) liquids, as well as to compare production by: @article{osti_, title = {Comparative analysis of monetary estimates of external environmental costs associated with combustion of fossil fuels}, author = {Koomey, J}, abstractNote = {Public utility commissions in a number of states have begun to explicitly treat costs of environmental externalities in the resource planning and acquisition process (Cohen Cited by: The levelized cost of energy (LCOE) is a measure of a power source that allows comparison of different methods of electricity generation on a consistent basis.
The LCOE can also be regarded as the Comparative costs of competitive fuels book constant price at which electricity must be sold in order to break even over the lifetime of the project. This can be roughly calculated as the net present value of all costs over. The comparative costs of alternative energy sources to fossil fuels are higher in the transportation sector than in other types of economic activities.
This suggests higher competitive advantages for the industrial, household, commercial, electricity and heat sectors to shift away from oil and to rely on solar, wind or hydro-power. A comparative analysis of the costs and economic competitiveness of the Shenhua approach and a variety of conceptual designs outlined in U.S.
studies is presented. The comparison shows that the economic competitiveness of direct coal liquefaction is dependent on production costs that consist primarily of raw material, operation and management Cited by: A comparison of heating costs by fuel type - latest data comparing home heating costs by propane gas, No.
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The new Biofuel Industry. In the US the feedstock is primarily corn, while in Brazil it is sugar- cane. The USA in was producing 7 billion gallons ( liters) per year, while the world production of biofuel ethanol was around billion gallons.
Fossil fuels—coal, natural gas, and petroleum—supplied 70% of total electric power generation inwith that share rising to 82% inand falling back to 70% in Although coal has been the predominant fuel used in power generation in the U.S. over the last 60 years, its share of the fossil fuel mix has varied in response to.
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Liquid products are particularly desirable as an easily storable and portable energy-dense form. To be widely implemented, CO 2. The costs of firewood and pellets compared to other fuels I made this cost comparison chart in March and so of course please do bear in mind that fuel prices vary over time.
In the pdf you will find references for where the data came from and I have tried to be as fair as possible when working out these costs.
A more useful comparison is the price or cost of fuels based on the heat content of the fuels, such as dollars per million British thermal units (Btu) of heat content. The formula for this calculation is: [ (Fuel price per unit) divided by (fuel heat content per unit) ] multiplied by 1, However, there are other factors and issues.
The indices for South Asia as a group convey the same message about the comparative advantage of the region: mainly four product groups, competitive at country level, are competitive. One additional product group, mineral fuels and lubricants, also shows a comparative advantage for South Asia, but this is mainly influenced by the biggest.
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Like gasoline, alternative fuel prices can fluctuate based on location, time of year, and political climate. The Cost competitiveness of fuel sources is a measure of whether or not particular fuel sources are cost competitive in the energy market, and is a primary factor in determining if a fuel source will be a fuel source can be produced and sold lower than the price crude oil is being traded at, including taxes, then it is considered to be a cost competitive fuel source.
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The EIA has written a short primer on comparing power generation costs. Cost is one of the key factors influencing the choice of fuels and technologies used to generate electricity.
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