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Edward, the following says otherwise.
The assumptions are:
Plants are a floating ship design.
The cost of the 100MW plant is 66 percent of the base cost of the conventional 100-MW plant of $4,000/kW.
Each doubling of the size of a 100MW plant lowers plant cost by 22%.
Cost of ship designs by N. Srinivasan and M. Sridhar, "Study on the Cost Effective Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Power Plant," Offshore Technology, pp. 1-13, 2010.
All cost assumptions from MIT thesis, Assessment of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion by Shylesh Muralidharan, B. Tech. Mechanical Engineering, Pondicherry University.
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