FIGURE 11 Waste Streams for Conventional Baseload Generation Systems FIGURE 12 Process Flow Streams for Solar Power Satellites Gasoline prices including taxes range from about a dollar per gallon up to approximately five dollars per gallon or between 26 cents and $1.32 a liter. The question of cost thus needs to focus on the minimum cost of manufacturing solar fuels while policy issues need to focus on tariffs imposed on fuels derived from hydrocarbon resources such as oil and coal. It is granted that oil producers can for awhile keep prices so low as to preclude the development of synthetic fuels if they have the complicity of governments. It should be noted that South Africa has chosen for strategic reasons to produce fuels from coal and pay a higher internal cost. Other countries impose reduced taxes on
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