Richard Morris wrote:
George William Herbert wrote:
Richard Morris wrote:
The last paper I saw on extracting uranium from seawater projected a
cost of about $1400 per pound, IIRC.

One pound of Uranium contains about 3E13 J of energy.
In BOTE terms, 1E10 Wh. At 10% net efficient conversion,
1E9 Wh, or 1E6 KWh. Or roughly 0.14 cent per KWh.

I currently pay 11 to 13 cents per KWh delivered to my house
on the electrical grid.

Which completely misses the point.

Then what was your point?

The point that I inferred, which was that extracting U from
seawater for power generation was uneconomic and/or impractical,
is neatly and completely refuted by "...and yet, such costs are
a trivial ~1% fraction of delivered energy cost today".

Thousands of dollars per pound material cost is perfectly
reasonable modern economic sense for materials that
generate a hundred thousand dollars of revenue per
pound of raw material.

For example, silicon boules ...


-george william herbert