Opting to procure a less capable medium-lift replacement that is more manpower intensive, and which is projected to have greater life cycle costs, is neither operationally or fiscally responsible.
The ability to control the strength of the beam provides for graduated lethality, and the use of light vice, an explosive munition, provides for low per engagement and life cycle costs.
The new carrier is also designed to significantly reduce maintenance costs from those of the current Nimitz class of carriers, another major driver of life-cycle costs.
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This reduces the number of different types of aircraft operated by the Defense Department and their associated life-cycle costs.
Offshore wind projects are evaluated in terms of their initial installed capital cost (ICC) as well as their life-cycle costs, which are often described as the levelized cost of energy (LCOE).
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The latter item is especially costly, since most of the life-cycle costs of jet engines are incurred after production, as parts are repeatedly repaired and replaced to keep the engines in a state of high readiness.
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When life-cycle costs are compared, natural gas is currently a more economical decision than flex-fuel powered vehicles, although both are more expensive than gasoline at current figures (keep in mind that these dynamics could change due to oil shocks or increased demand for traditional fuels both real risks).
The argument could also be made that delaying construction of the new Ford class of carriers might actually increase the long-term cost of carriers, since the next-generation carrier is designed to reduce crewing requirements by hundreds of personnel, and manpower expenses are the biggest driver of life-cycle costs for aircraft carriers.
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The kinds of analysis that report massive, sustained, falling costs for renewable plants often assume that capital costs are recovered in steady-state fashion over the full, rated, life-cycle of the machinery, when in fact investors in these systems always strive to recover their costs much sooner to beat the diminishing returns that set in once two-thirds of the life-cycle is spent.
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In the process, though, it fractures the product life-cycle for systems built by those private companies, raises overhead costs on remaining work, and in general make the companies less competitive.
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