actually, I did not pull that from my ass. I have since 1967 been a recycler until 3 years ago. At that time, I spent some time looking into the industry (I was laid up with health issues). I found out that WM who said that they recycled local, does not. They send it all to China.
Likewise, I have had to get old parts to make some computers work, so I went to the local e-recycler. If it worked, they re-sold it and made money locally. If not, they broke it apart and sent the board with gold or silver to be shredded and then sent to china for smelting. It was shredded because it was less space (most cargo ships are volume constrained, not weight).
So, no, the ONLY one pulling out of their ass, is you.
in fact, that legislation will NEVER be enforced. It is a joke. Basically, once something is allowed to leave here, we really have no say in what happens. It is for that very reason that we must not allow it to be exported.
there is absolutely NOTHING anti-capitalist by putting in regulations that says that we will not pollute the world. Capitalism is not a license to pollute and destroy our living areas.
good lord. idiots like you are the reason why we have this. China's gov and businesses make decisions such as remaining on 88% coal derived electricity. Why are they doing that? Because it is CHEAP. And why do they not run scrubbers on their coal plants? Because it raises the costs of their electricity. These are NOT CHOICES that the west made. These are choices that China made. Not its ppl, but the gov and businesses.
That is also why idiots like you that scream that it is up to individuals to make a difference has absolutely NO CLUE.
well, the interesting thing is that for china to send their junk to the west, requires that these ships go back FULL. Right now, they are paid good money to take garbage and some is recycled while others is not. What is interesting is that waste accounts for more than 1/2 of what we send back to China.
If we keep the waste here, it will NOT be landfilled. Why? Because regs prevent it. IOW, burning for energy, combined with recycling, are the only options other than sending it overseas. And once export stops, it will mean that we will have low cost material here that will be use for manufacturing.
Oh, e-waste, along with paper, glass, and metal will QUICKLY accumulate. Will some of it be thrown into a pit? Oh yeah.
BUT, I think that capitalism will find quick uses for these. For example, plastic and paper can and should be burned for energy. It will produce CO2, but, this is going to other nations and then being used in the same way.
Glass and Metals will be recycled again and new uses will be found.
e-waste can be disassembled via robotics and then parted.
uh no. Very little that is shipped is working. And when it gets to 3rd world nations, they are looking at the waste for 1 thing: How can they smelt it back to elements.
The reason for saying that we need to prevent the export of our garbage, is that it will quickly cause various ppl and businesses to look for opportunities. Capitalism IS to blame for sending it out. But, If we keep it in our nation and it builds up slightly, then capitalism will quickly solve this issue.
Seriously, the ONLY way to solve this, is for us to stop allowing ANY garbage to be exported. Then capitalism will find solutions rather quickly. Most importantly, it will help bring back manufacturing since we will then have resources that need to be used, and can not be exported.
Actually, tesla's Model S, X, and shortly 3, MAKE actual sense. They replace competitors that costs as much or more, get around 20 MPG, is much quicker, has decent range, and has a growing super charger infrastructure that allows for quick recharges.
In addition, the M3 will do the same again. It will replace competitors, such as the BMW 3 series, that costs as much or more, they get under 30 MPH, and the M3 will be quicker, cheaper to own, has a decent range, and use of a massive super charger network, etc.
Now, the leaf, the bolt, the ZOE, etc are all EVs that do NOT make sense. They are replacing ICE based cars that costs in the low $20,000, are rigged to be slower (yes, these EVs are very capable of being quicker, but are electritronically governed), take forever to charge, and with the exception of the bolt, have no decent range.
Sadly, it is the far left that is more of the problem. THey acknowledge that Climate Change is real, but then:
1) ignore China as being the major emitter and growing fast,
2) focus their efforts on America who is already below 15% and dropping fast,
3) claim that solar and wind will take care of everything, but then ignore the fact that Germany who is the most dependent on these, are now building out new coal plants and will miss their emissions limits over the next couple of years.
4) ignore that the ONLY nations that have managed to drop their electricity CO2 emissions to near zero, are based on hydro, geo-thermal AND NUKES.
5) claim that nukes are dangerous, while ignoring the fact that new reactors are being designed such that laws of physics would have to fail for these to fail.
IOW, the far left bears as much, or more, responsibility for this situation.
Seriously, for any trip to go beyond mars, they MUST have nuclear power, and very likely nuclear engines.
Im guessing that he is looking multiples on these with NASA, along with Bigelow and Bezo.
Soyuz is not iss. And the shuttle, as well as Apollo, had AR7 onboard.
The difference is that Chinese space station likely does not have survival weapons.
wrong. If China participated, we would have given them LOADS of IP, and they would contribute little to nothing UNLESS IT BENEFITED THEIR MILITARY.
As to accomplishing more science, that happens within another 1.5 years, if not sooner. SpaceX continues to work on their V2, so, that is a non-issue. IOW, they will likely be close to schedule
In the end, the real question is, can Bigelow put a BA-330 habitat on the ISS, which would allow for say 10-12 ppl to live there. That would make a HUGE difference.
Seriously, if we wanted to, we could put somebody up there within 3-6 months. The issue has been that CONgress has NOT properly funded things. However, in an emergency, SpaceX could easily launch a V1 with extra O2 on-board to get to the ISS, and within several months, a V2 could be ready.
Likewise, CST-100 could be ready in under 6 months or less. It would take money, but there is little issue about our ability to do so.
A lot of anti-spaceX posters here have to be pretty proud of China's accomplishment.
There are plenty of them that would rather see CHina succeed than to see Musk, Bigelow, or even bezo succeed.
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Afterall, they gave all their trans rapid tech to China.
actually, I did not pull that from my ass. I have since 1967 been a recycler until 3 years ago. At that time, I spent some time looking into the industry (I was laid up with health issues). I found out that WM who said that they recycled local, does not. They send it all to China.
Likewise, I have had to get old parts to make some computers work, so I went to the local e-recycler. If it worked, they re-sold it and made money locally. If not, they broke it apart and sent the board with gold or silver to be shredded and then sent to china for smelting. It was shredded because it was less space (most cargo ships are volume constrained, not weight).
So, no, the ONLY one pulling out of their ass, is you.
in fact, that legislation will NEVER be enforced. It is a joke. Basically, once something is allowed to leave here, we really have no say in what happens. It is for that very reason that we must not allow it to be exported.
there is absolutely NOTHING anti-capitalist by putting in regulations that says that we will not pollute the world. Capitalism is not a license to pollute and destroy our living areas.
good lord. idiots like you are the reason why we have this. China's gov and businesses make decisions such as remaining on 88% coal derived electricity. Why are they doing that? Because it is CHEAP. And why do they not run scrubbers on their coal plants? Because it raises the costs of their electricity. These are NOT CHOICES that the west made. These are choices that China made. Not its ppl, but the gov and businesses.
That is also why idiots like you that scream that it is up to individuals to make a difference has absolutely NO CLUE.
well, the interesting thing is that for china to send their junk to the west, requires that these ships go back FULL. Right now, they are paid good money to take garbage and some is recycled while others is not. What is interesting is that waste accounts for more than 1/2 of what we send back to China.
If we keep the waste here, it will NOT be landfilled. Why? Because regs prevent it. IOW, burning for energy, combined with recycling, are the only options other than sending it overseas. And once export stops, it will mean that we will have low cost material here that will be use for manufacturing.
Oh, e-waste, along with paper, glass, and metal will QUICKLY accumulate. Will some of it be thrown into a pit? Oh yeah.
BUT, I think that capitalism will find quick uses for these. For example, plastic and paper can and should be burned for energy. It will produce CO2, but, this is going to other nations and then being used in the same way.
Glass and Metals will be recycled again and new uses will be found.
e-waste can be disassembled via robotics and then parted.
uh no. Very little that is shipped is working. And when it gets to 3rd world nations, they are looking at the waste for 1 thing: How can they smelt it back to elements.
The reason for saying that we need to prevent the export of our garbage, is that it will quickly cause various ppl and businesses to look for opportunities. Capitalism IS to blame for sending it out. But, If we keep it in our nation and it builds up slightly, then capitalism will quickly solve this issue.
Actually, the far left is NOT that useful. They are absolutely killing this, since they are allowing this.
Seriously, the ONLY way to solve this, is for us to stop allowing ANY garbage to be exported. Then capitalism will find solutions rather quickly. Most importantly, it will help bring back manufacturing since we will then have resources that need to be used, and can not be exported.
Odd, over and over, nukes come out WAY ahead of any chem esp. hydrolox.
You mention the mass of a nuke pile, yet, for something like NERVA, it is fairly lightweight, esp. relative to LOX and its tank.
Although the Kiwi/Phoebus/NERVA designs were the only ones to be tested in any substantial program, a number of other solid-core engines were also studied to some degree. The Small Nuclear Rocket Engine, or SNRE, was designed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for upper stage use, both on unmanned launchers as well as the Space Shuttle. It featured a split-nozzle that could be rotated to the side, allowing it to take up less room in the Shuttle cargo bay. The design provided 73 kN of thrust and operated at a specific impulse of 875 seconds (8.58 kNs/kg), and it was planned to increase this to 975 with fairly basic upgrades. This allowed it to achieve a mass fraction of about 0.74, comparing with 0.86 for the SSME, one of the best conventional engines.
And apparently, there was major room for improvement:
Between 1987 and 1991 an advanced engine design was studied under Project Timberwind, under the aegis of the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars"), which was later expanded into a larger design in the Space Thermal Nuclear Propulsion (STNP) program. Advances in high-temperature metals, computer modelling and nuclear engineering in general resulted in dramatically improved performance. While the NERVA engine was projected to weigh about 6,803 kg, the final STNP offered just over 1/3 the thrust from an engine of only 1,650 kg by improving the Isp to between 930 and 1000 seconds.[citation needed]
So, it appears that Musk, Bigelow, and Bezo knows a great deal more about this than you do.
Actually, tesla's Model S, X, and shortly 3, MAKE actual sense. They replace competitors that costs as much or more, get around 20 MPG, is much quicker, has decent range, and has a growing super charger infrastructure that allows for quick recharges.
In addition, the M3 will do the same again. It will replace competitors, such as the BMW 3 series, that costs as much or more, they get under 30 MPH, and the M3 will be quicker, cheaper to own, has a decent range, and use of a massive super charger network, etc.
Now, the leaf, the bolt, the ZOE, etc are all EVs that do NOT make sense. They are replacing ICE based cars that costs in the low $20,000, are rigged to be slower (yes, these EVs are very capable of being quicker, but are electritronically governed), take forever to charge, and with the exception of the bolt, have no decent range.
Sadly, it is the far left that is more of the problem. THey acknowledge that Climate Change is real, but then:
1) ignore China as being the major emitter and growing fast,
2) focus their efforts on America who is already below 15% and dropping fast,
3) claim that solar and wind will take care of everything, but then ignore the fact that Germany who is the most dependent on these, are now building out new coal plants and will miss their emissions limits over the next couple of years.
4) ignore that the ONLY nations that have managed to drop their electricity CO2 emissions to near zero, are based on hydro, geo-thermal AND NUKES.
5) claim that nukes are dangerous, while ignoring the fact that new reactors are being designed such that laws of physics would have to fail for these to fail.
IOW, the far left bears as much, or more, responsibility for this situation.
Seriously, for any trip to go beyond mars, they MUST have nuclear power, and very likely nuclear engines.
Im guessing that he is looking multiples on these with NASA, along with Bigelow and Bezo.
True. It will interesting to see what the new capsule will do.
We DID share a lot of tech with Russia. Ours was high tech, while, like their ak-47, low tech but works easily and cheaply.
Soyuz is not iss. And the shuttle, as well as Apollo, had AR7 onboard. The difference is that Chinese space station likely does not have survival weapons.
odd, but neither is tesla.
wrong. If China participated, we would have given them LOADS of IP, and they would contribute little to nothing UNLESS IT BENEFITED THEIR MILITARY.
As to accomplishing more science, that happens within another 1.5 years, if not sooner. SpaceX continues to work on their V2, so, that is a non-issue. IOW, they will likely be close to schedule
In the end, the real question is, can Bigelow put a BA-330 habitat on the ISS, which would allow for say 10-12 ppl to live there. That would make a HUGE difference.
Seriously, if we wanted to, we could put somebody up there within 3-6 months. The issue has been that CONgress has NOT properly funded things. However, in an emergency, SpaceX could easily launch a V1 with extra O2 on-board to get to the ISS, and within several months, a V2 could be ready.
Likewise, CST-100 could be ready in under 6 months or less. It would take money, but there is little issue about our ability to do so.
what kind of move? Bowel Move?
chance are good that China has weapons on theirs and they would simply blow it up upon somebody trying to enter.
A lot of anti-spaceX posters here have to be pretty proud of China's accomplishment.
There are plenty of them that would rather see CHina succeed than to see Musk, Bigelow, or even bezo succeed.
well, then that explains how tesla's autopilot is an autopilot. Basically, it is evolving along from a level 4 to a level 5.