Hospital in Portland
Oregon
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Resources in Portland Oregon
Hospital Power Usage Needs:
● Hospitals need reliable power; electricity that runs full time
● Need water heating and space heating
● Safe and clean environment for patients
Resources Available in Oregon:
● Many water sources (eg. port, hydropower plant)
● Mineral reserves
● Mist Gas Field
● Forests
Hydropower
Benefits:
-Hydropower plants don’t give off heavy air pollution like some other energy sources
- 90% efficiency
- renewable and clean
Concerns:
-can displace
-can affect local wildlife (temperature, flow, fish migration)
-high start up cost
Costs:
-Cost of extraction: 1000 – 5000 USD/kWh
Benefits to project:
1) Production:30000-80000 USD/kWh -reliable and renewable
2) Fuel purchase: N/A -resource availability in Portland
3) Plant set up:3-4b USD
4) Maintenance:1%-3% of initial cost (depends on state of plant/unexpected failure/etc) -secures hospital energy production
5) Running cost: 0.85 cents/kWh -low maintenance cost once set up,
6) Reclamation: varies severely based on size and location no fuel needed
7) Cost of disposal:varies severely based on size and location
8) Transportation: varies severely based on size and location
Natural Gas
Benefits:
-easily accessible
-cleaner than other fossil fuels
-low-cost and dependable
-93% efficiency
Concerns:
-lots of CO2 emissions
-possible pollution of drinking water
-bad for environment (fracking)
Costs: Benefits to project:
-dependable and cheap source of energy
1) Cost of extraction: $1-6 per Mcf
2) Production:$3 per cubic feet -relatively clean (could be worse)
3) Fuel purchase: $1.1 per Mcf
4) Plant set up:250k
5) Maintenance:5% of initial cost per year
6) Running cost: $15 per 1000 cubic feet
7) Reclamation: 10k
8) Cost of disposal:75k
Solar Power
Benefits:
● No greenhouse gas emissions
● Reduces dependence on fossil fuels
● Able to withstand hurricane winds and heavy rain
● Beneficial for human health as air becomes cleaner
● Is cost efficient in long term
Concerns:
● Very costly to set up
● Destroy habitats & disturb animals with construction of transmission lines
● Panels itself can contain toxic materials
● Can be unreliable on cloudy days
Costs:
● Panel: $1.80 per panel
● Installation: $18,000-$36,000
● Running Cost: $13.13 cents per kwh
● Maintenance: $31 per kilowatt of installed capacity
● Disposal: $1-$5 per solar panel