Lol. Tesla and LG are already well below 200/kwh. In fact, gm claimed that lg was below 145/kwh and approaching tesla's costs. Tesla is thought to be below 125/kwh, and says that they will be well below 99/kwh by 2020. So not even close to your rant.
Oh man. You are a crack-up. How many Tesla use charging stations more than once a month? Fewer than 5%. Most everybody charges at home. Keep in mind that 98% of all passenger vehicle trips are less than 100 miles. In fact, nearly all Tesla drivers comment on the lack of lost time due to having to go to charging stations weekly or more.
Fcv HAVE to go to fueling stations. Always.
LOL. You really want to compare these 2? Fcx is 3/4 of the price of a MS. The fcx seats 4, has a little bitty trunk, does 0-60 in 10 seconds, uses fuel more expensive than gasoline, and has less than 20 refueling stations in all of America.
Otoh, the MS seats 5-7, still has large frunck as well as trunck for 5 seater. Does 0-60 in less than 1/2 of the time( and that is the cheapest version ). Has over 10,000 'fueling stations' in America, not including the home's plugs.
Lh2 has absolutely no use in America, and probably not any nation.
The longer it takes Germany to refocus their efforts on EVs only, the bigger that Tesla , Google, apple, and Faraday will grow.
For them to start up and survive, they need a new part of the industry that the main streams are ignoring.
Seriously, my neighbors will run gas mowers in the early am. Loud. Very loud. Worse, they are heavy pollution.
So require that all lawn mowers below say 6 or 8 hp to be electric.
And yet, spacex is busy developing inexpensive shlv to take there. In addition, they are developing a lander for mars as well. Now, who will pay for it? My guess is that spacex will be happy to take cargo and ppl to the moon. And how many groups want that now? A lot.
Private space will get us to the moon AND Mars.
Congress and president do the budget together. No doubt about it. But the president does have power on this. He can veto anything that Congress pushes. In particular, O did kill off constellation after the group said it was way underfunded and it became obvious that it would never work economically. Instead, O focused on private space to remove congress future ability to mess with things. The GOP has fought hard against private space, and instead created SLS funding. SLS was a deal in which o gets private space funding while the GOP get their jobs bill. In the end, SLS is dead, and private space will take us cheaply to the moon and Mars.
The only way that America will do lunar or martian missions is if it is a service. Basically, the GOP will continue to treat NASA as a jobs program, which is horribly wasteful. But the private space that first W, and now O, have been backing funding, will enable NASA to take missions to first the moon and then Mars. These will likely not use the wasteful SLS that Congress forced on O. But this will depend on the GOP to quit trying to kill private space, esp spacex.
A lot of the world? Hmmm. No doubt some of the world. But, how do you define, a lot of the world and where do you get your statistic? Or are you just as full of BS as you are a coward?
Ok, if this has no harm to the end user, i.e. nothing physical stolen, then why would copying music or movies be damaging? That has all of the same IP, as my information about myself that michaels and others would just have given up.
Of course, that is a very large number of ppl in each of those unions as opposed to 1 person. Big difference. But with that said, as long as my state is not a swing state, I will be writting in lessig. It is about time to stop not just rich ppl and unions, but also foreign nations esp china, wall street, large businesses, illegals, etc from legally bribing our politicians.
70% of the cost of the launch is not the same thing as 70% of the costs of building it.
So, we have been looking at this first stage costing 70% of $60 million. However, Musk may have been referring to 70% of $140 million, which is the TRUE LAUNCH COSTS. If that is the case, then a 70% reduction on this is HUGE, since it means that a launch will then be less than 40 million instead of 140 million.
First off, I suspect that first stage is a LOT more than 2/3 of costs. Much larger size. 9 engines vs. 1. the CPU/software will be comparable, but it should be minor. Has a much bigger hydraulic system to handle the rudders and legs. So, that means that first stage is probably closer to 3/4 to 80% of the costs.
In addition, Musk has said that these are designed to go for 10 launches. Assuming that they estimate that correctly, then saving are likely around 66-75%.
Reliability is unknown by YOU and I. BUT, SpaceX already has a clue of what it will take. The question is, have they over or under estimated. Keep in mind that Musk HAS actually under estimated before. His first rocket blew up for a reason. In addition, he thought that a simple parachute would enable him to capture the first stage. Both were failures. Thankfully, he changed his approach.
I suspect that SpaceX has over estimated this and these will likely do at least 10 launches without much fix up. The question is, will they go further?
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Lol. Tesla and LG are already well below 200/kwh. In fact, gm claimed that lg was below 145/kwh and approaching tesla's costs. Tesla is thought to be below 125/kwh, and says that they will be well below 99/kwh by 2020. So not even close to your rant.
Oh man. You are a crack-up. How many Tesla use charging stations more than once a month? Fewer than 5%. Most everybody charges at home. Keep in mind that 98% of all passenger vehicle trips are less than 100 miles. In fact, nearly all Tesla drivers comment on the lack of lost time due to having to go to charging stations weekly or more. Fcv HAVE to go to fueling stations. Always.
Fuel cells are big and expensive and already in parallel stacks. The slow 0-60 is a compromise of costs and weight on the part of the fuel cell.
LOL. You really want to compare these 2? Fcx is 3/4 of the price of a MS. The fcx seats 4, has a little bitty trunk, does 0-60 in 10 seconds, uses fuel more expensive than gasoline, and has less than 20 refueling stations in all of America. Otoh, the MS seats 5-7, still has large frunck as well as trunck for 5 seater. Does 0-60 in less than 1/2 of the time( and that is the cheapest version ). Has over 10,000 'fueling stations' in America, not including the home's plugs. Lh2 has absolutely no use in America, and probably not any nation.
You do not hear it because lng storage is at a fraction of the temp and pressure. In addition, methane is not as destructive as lh2 is esp on metals.
The longer it takes Germany to refocus their efforts on EVs only, the bigger that Tesla , Google, apple, and Faraday will grow. For them to start up and survive, they need a new part of the industry that the main streams are ignoring.
France is NOT building ITER. International nations are. Hell, France is not even the largest source of money on it.
Actually, that gp is doing just that. They want the right to inflict noise and air pollution on others.
Seriously, my neighbors will run gas mowers in the early am. Loud. Very loud. Worse, they are heavy pollution. So require that all lawn mowers below say 6 or 8 hp to be electric.
And yet, spacex is busy developing inexpensive shlv to take there. In addition, they are developing a lander for mars as well. Now, who will pay for it? My guess is that spacex will be happy to take cargo and ppl to the moon. And how many groups want that now? A lot. Private space will get us to the moon AND Mars.
Congress and president do the budget together. No doubt about it. But the president does have power on this. He can veto anything that Congress pushes. In particular, O did kill off constellation after the group said it was way underfunded and it became obvious that it would never work economically. Instead, O focused on private space to remove congress future ability to mess with things. The GOP has fought hard against private space, and instead created SLS funding. SLS was a deal in which o gets private space funding while the GOP get their jobs bill. In the end, SLS is dead, and private space will take us cheaply to the moon and Mars.
The only way that America will do lunar or martian missions is if it is a service. Basically, the GOP will continue to treat NASA as a jobs program, which is horribly wasteful. But the private space that first W, and now O, have been backing funding, will enable NASA to take missions to first the moon and then Mars. These will likely not use the wasteful SLS that Congress forced on O. But this will depend on the GOP to quit trying to kill private space, esp spacex.
Actually, look up ft. St vrain nuclear reactor. It was thorium and was great. Sadly, GA screwed up with their he system.
ok.
Other than Iraq, what wars have we started?
sure. what wars have we started that you want stopped?
A lot of the world? Hmmm. No doubt some of the world. But, how do you define, a lot of the world and where do you get your statistic? Or are you just as full of BS as you are a coward?
snipers; bombers; naval ship bombardment of shores.
Medals are for a large number of things.
Ok, if this has no harm to the end user, i.e. nothing physical stolen, then why would copying music or movies be damaging? That has all of the same IP, as my information about myself that michaels and others would just have given up.
Yes, but in 3 years, Greece may be able to buy a ticket to the moon for farless than what Putin will pay.
And why exactly are the other 9% not in charter?
Of course, that is a very large number of ppl in each of those unions as opposed to 1 person. Big difference. But with that said, as long as my state is not a swing state, I will be writting in lessig. It is about time to stop not just rich ppl and unions, but also foreign nations esp china, wall street, large businesses, illegals, etc from legally bribing our politicians.
And yet, you skipped the next sentence: " But almost every academic indicator has been improving.".
70% of the cost of the launch is not the same thing as 70% of the costs of building it.
So, we have been looking at this first stage costing 70% of $60 million. However, Musk may have been referring to 70% of $140 million, which is the TRUE LAUNCH COSTS. If that is the case, then a 70% reduction on this is HUGE, since it means that a launch will then be less than 40 million instead of 140 million.
First off, I suspect that first stage is a LOT more than 2/3 of costs. Much larger size. 9 engines vs. 1. the CPU/software will be comparable, but it should be minor. Has a much bigger hydraulic system to handle the rudders and legs. So, that means that first stage is probably closer to 3/4 to 80% of the costs.
In addition, Musk has said that these are designed to go for 10 launches. Assuming that they estimate that correctly, then saving are likely around 66-75%.
Reliability is unknown by YOU and I. BUT, SpaceX already has a clue of what it will take. The question is, have they over or under estimated. Keep in mind that Musk HAS actually under estimated before. His first rocket blew up for a reason. In addition, he thought that a simple parachute would enable him to capture the first stage. Both were failures. Thankfully, he changed his approach.
I suspect that SpaceX has over estimated this and these will likely do at least 10 launches without much fix up. The question is, will they go further?