It was only after the second increase, in 1981, that there was breakeven between the running cost of the scheme and the level of income.
So the breakeven point for the private landlord is about £10 a week.
The breakeven point for single people and married couples with no children is therefore the tax threshold.
The breakeven point is just around average earnings.
We find that with market uncertainty, a trigger price higher than the breakeven price of conventional benefit-cost analysis is required to induce the leaseholder to plant.
Such efficient laser and direct conversion induce a breakeven with low gain from target of 20 to 30 in this case, even when neutron energy is excluded.
That the breakeven yield increase is lower in the returns to land analysis highlights the attractiveness of the technology in areas of high population density, small farms, and plentiful labour.
The mirror ratio of 10 is taken as the confinement of plasma and to obtain a conversion to electricity for a breakeven.