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coal with CCS are large according to Lazard, they also caution that no commercial facili-
ties have been constructed, and there are no suppliers for the equipment, so the project
development time may actually be prohibitively large for many years to come. Finally, the
energy engineer will note that fuel cells are not energy conversion systems per se if they
are conceived as converting hydrogen to electricity when the energy used to make the
hydrogen was already produced and could have been sold in the market.
1.4.5 Other Costs of Energy Development
Land has a value and a potentia ...