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The relation is investigated between capital costs and thermodynamic losses for devices in modern coal-fired, oil-fired and nuclear electrical generating stations. Thermodynamic loss rate-to-capital cost ratios are used to show that, for station devices and the overall station, a systematic correlation appears to exist between capital cost and exergy loss (total or internal), but not between capital...