> When you are cranking out a 5 GW power plant in a week, you can ignore financing and inflation.

You said it was a 10-year payback period:

80 cents/watt installed cost
8 cents/watt-year revenue (1 cent per kWh; 8 kWh/year production)

That implies at least a 10-year loan. Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that there would be interest charged on a 10-year loan?

>> When you are cranking out a 5 GW power plant in a week, you can ignore financing and inflation.

Sorry, what I meant was construction financing. That's a huge part of
nuclear plants because they take so long to build.

> You said it was a 10-year payback period:
>
> 80 cents/watt installed cost
> 8 cents/watt-year revenue (1 cent per kWh; 8 kWh/year production)

$800 per kw is 80 cent per watt,

> That implies at least a 10-year loan. Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that there would be interest charged on a 10-year loan?

Might be, depends on the financing model. You would just sell the
power sats. In any case, a ten year repayment on a utility investment
is very fast.

Keith