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Windmill[_5_]

(Andrew Gabriel) writes:

In article ,
writes:
750 gets you better TCO. OTOH no-one appreciates short lamp life.

TCO also includes the relamping costs.

Streetlamps (back in the days of filament ones) usually used
double life and sometimes triple life lamps, because
a) The relamping costs were high, and
b) They paid a rate which worked out typically only 1/4 of
the standard domestic electricity rate.

If that's correct, it tells us something about the true cost of
generating electricity.
While they might sell it at cost for such purposes, I doubt they'd sell
it at a loss.

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