Ussr launched it quickly when they found out that America was getting ready to put vangard into space. In fact, sputnik was put together in just several months and that is why it had nothing scientific except for a transmitter. In fact, that was much of how the Soviet space program was done . fast and sloppy. That is why when America announced our lunar program, it was already on its way.
Larger cells mean inability to control the heat which is what really destroys the cells. In addition, with high parallelism, they are able to deliver a great deal more amps as well as charge much faster. IOW, the use of massive cells was an intelligent choice, not one forced on them. In addition, the wrappers are not the same as what goes into your laptop.
Uh nope. Multiple new mines have been opened and plenty around. In addition, lithium can be gotten from the ocean, but at a costs of around 15/kg. Of course, that is 15 initially. At some point price would drop.
You may wish to rethink #2 there. That was not just a doubling in storage, but a massive cut in size. A D cell is roughly 8x bigger in volume. So that is 16x increase over less than 20 years.
Uhm. Humm. Have you wondered why Tesla has the ability to do a supercharger and not ruin their batteries? Or why their batteries will outlast others? Or why they have such amazing performance? It is because they choose to go with small batteries. It was not forced on them. They wanted high parallelism in the batteries.
http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/10/19/tesla-model-s-passes-bmw-audi-getting-close-to-mercedes-in-europe/'>for numbers not much better in 2015, they are at 10,600 for first 9 months. And with sales of 2-3000 for the 2 summers months. And that was before the diesel issue was shown. My guess is that will jump them up to 3-4000 / month rather quickly.
Being profit driven is great when it is long-term. Short-term profits are normally done for stock manipulation so that the executives can sell their options (and this is a disaster to the companies).
However, Musk is NOT profit driven. He is goal driven, of which the making of profits is a side-effect, not the ONLY goal.
The demand is outstripping their supply. Right now, if they could product 250,000 MS, they would be able to sell it just in America and Europe ALONE. In fact, what keeps Mercedes S-class from dropping massively is the fact that tesla can NOT produce enough. OTOH, all of the other competition has dropped massively in America and Europe.
Dead wrong. Spacex is NOT profit driven. If they were, they would raise their prices to just under ula's. They are driven to explore. These are engineers, not MBAs or politicians.
You think that 100% of spacex's money for the manned system is the feds? You must be with Boeing or l-mart ( 1 step below k-mart ). Boeing had over 620 million, while spacex is less than 540 million. In addition, Boeing gets 4.6 billion contract to finish it out and launch twice. Spacex gets 2.6b to finish it out and 3 flights.
Spacex is putting a lot of their money into this. Boeing? Not a penny.
And yet, Google and apple, amongst others would gladly buy them. However, there is little doubt that Tesla will be profitable in 2 years. The reason is that they will be producing at around 100,000 cars by end of 2016 and when model 3 hits, should be able to do 150-200k just on model S and X. Combine with an easy rampup of 50-100k M3 just for the first year, and we are looking at over 300k by end of 2017. Interestingly, that will put them on the same tract as Ford did, and ahead of Hyundai, who had massive subsidies.
Outside of making money on minor subsidies? Well, he is the one that brought banking to the net, which really allowed for commercialism on it;
He is one of, if not the, largest installer, and owner of solar. In addition, his new factory going up in new York should produce highest efficiency, lowest costs panels by end of 2017; his Tesla is the reason why electric vehicles are taking off. In fact, it is the shear fright of model 3 that caused Europe to walk away from their plans for hydrogen vehicles; and of course, spacex has singlehandley caused the price of rocket launches to plummet. Russians, Europeans, and American launch systems have had no choice but to drop their prices and get massive subsidies to compete against minor subsidized spacex.
But hey, I doubt you wanted facts here.
Actually, I think that something is about to give WRT oil exports. All of OPEC is losing money and the majority of them have already gone through their main savings and are now losing their back-up savings (i.e. gold, American T-bills, etc). Saudi Arabia would love to force American production out of business, but that is not going to happen. But, they want to increase the price, just like the rest of the OPEC does, while at the same time, not losing any % of market place. THe only way to have price increase is to have all producers esp. Russia cut their production. Russia is fighting that, but, with their now being involved in a 2 front war, they will likely be willing to cut production so as to increase their total dollars.
The hard part here is NOT slowing down. Basically slowing down from 4 km or 100 km is simply a matter of more fuel. The hard part is:
1) landing under power.
2) landing under power on a set spot.
3) landing under power on a spot that is pitching, rolling, and yawing.
Blue Origin should be congratulated for doing the first. Of course, SpaceX not only did the first, but also the second. SpaceX has NOT managed to do #3.
BUT, in the end, BO will be flying regular commercial runs with stage reuse next year.
Yeah. of course, the biggest importers of middle eastern oil is Europe, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and then America. So, that brings us back to wondering why America is being dragged into this quagmire?
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Actually, other than America and UK, coal is growing in most places.
Ussr launched it quickly when they found out that America was getting ready to put vangard into space. In fact, sputnik was put together in just several months and that is why it had nothing scientific except for a transmitter. In fact, that was much of how the Soviet space program was done . fast and sloppy. That is why when America announced our lunar program, it was already on its way.
But, Russia's budget buys more.
Larger cells mean inability to control the heat which is what really destroys the cells. In addition, with high parallelism, they are able to deliver a great deal more amps as well as charge much faster. IOW, the use of massive cells was an intelligent choice, not one forced on them. In addition, the wrappers are not the same as what goes into your laptop.
Uh nope. Multiple new mines have been opened and plenty around. In addition, lithium can be gotten from the ocean, but at a costs of around 15/kg. Of course, that is 15 initially. At some point price would drop.
You may wish to rethink #2 there. That was not just a doubling in storage, but a massive cut in size. A D cell is roughly 8x bigger in volume. So that is 16x increase over less than 20 years.
Uhm. Humm. Have you wondered why Tesla has the ability to do a supercharger and not ruin their batteries? Or why their batteries will outlast others? Or why they have such amazing performance? It is because they choose to go with small batteries. It was not forced on them. They wanted high parallelism in the batteries.
http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/10/19/tesla-model-s-passes-bmw-audi-getting-close-to-mercedes-in-europe/'>for numbers not much better in 2015, they are at 10,600 for first 9 months. And with sales of 2-3000 for the 2 summers months. And that was before the diesel issue was shown. My guess is that will jump them up to 3-4000 / month rather quickly.
I said, America and Europe alone. That means both of those together vs. the entire world like Most car makers have.
The biggest issue that they will have, is that the text commentary does not always match the words that are spoken.
Being profit driven is great when it is long-term. Short-term profits are normally done for stock manipulation so that the executives can sell their options (and this is a disaster to the companies).
However, Musk is NOT profit driven. He is goal driven, of which the making of profits is a side-effect, not the ONLY goal.
totally agree. It will be producing 1/2 of the world's li-ion batteries within 2 years.
The demand is outstripping their supply. Right now, if they could product 250,000 MS, they would be able to sell it just in America and Europe ALONE. In fact, what keeps Mercedes S-class from dropping massively is the fact that tesla can NOT produce enough. OTOH, all of the other competition has dropped massively in America and Europe.
USSR was spending 10-40% of their GDP on their military
And if you go through this, Russia outspends America in % of GDP, except when W throw the money away on his wars
But hey, do not let REAL facts get in your way.
Dead wrong. Spacex is NOT profit driven. If they were, they would raise their prices to just under ula's. They are driven to explore. These are engineers, not MBAs or politicians.
Really? What other mission failures on the F9 did spacex have?
You think that 100% of spacex's money for the manned system is the feds? You must be with Boeing or l-mart ( 1 step below k-mart ). Boeing had over 620 million, while spacex is less than 540 million. In addition, Boeing gets 4.6 billion contract to finish it out and launch twice. Spacex gets 2.6b to finish it out and 3 flights. Spacex is putting a lot of their money into this. Boeing? Not a penny.
Yeah, but that was better than some of the out right lies and attacks by some here
And yet, Google and apple, amongst others would gladly buy them. However, there is little doubt that Tesla will be profitable in 2 years. The reason is that they will be producing at around 100,000 cars by end of 2016 and when model 3 hits, should be able to do 150-200k just on model S and X. Combine with an easy rampup of 50-100k M3 just for the first year, and we are looking at over 300k by end of 2017. Interestingly, that will put them on the same tract as Ford did, and ahead of Hyundai, who had massive subsidies.
Outside of making money on minor subsidies? Well, he is the one that brought banking to the net, which really allowed for commercialism on it; He is one of, if not the, largest installer, and owner of solar. In addition, his new factory going up in new York should produce highest efficiency, lowest costs panels by end of 2017; his Tesla is the reason why electric vehicles are taking off. In fact, it is the shear fright of model 3 that caused Europe to walk away from their plans for hydrogen vehicles; and of course, spacex has singlehandley caused the price of rocket launches to plummet. Russians, Europeans, and American launch systems have had no choice but to drop their prices and get massive subsidies to compete against minor subsidized spacex. But hey, I doubt you wanted facts here.
Actually, in terms of the GDP, we really did not. Russia outspent America by a LONG margin. The same is true today of China's spending.
Actually, I think that something is about to give WRT oil exports. All of OPEC is losing money and the majority of them have already gone through their main savings and are now losing their back-up savings (i.e. gold, American T-bills, etc). Saudi Arabia would love to force American production out of business, but that is not going to happen. But, they want to increase the price, just like the rest of the OPEC does, while at the same time, not losing any % of market place. THe only way to have price increase is to have all producers esp. Russia cut their production. Russia is fighting that, but, with their now being involved in a 2 front war, they will likely be willing to cut production so as to increase their total dollars.
The hard part here is NOT slowing down. Basically slowing down from 4 km or 100 km is simply a matter of more fuel. The hard part is:
1) landing under power.
2) landing under power on a set spot.
3) landing under power on a spot that is pitching, rolling, and yawing.
Blue Origin should be congratulated for doing the first. Of course, SpaceX not only did the first, but also the second. SpaceX has NOT managed to do #3.
BUT, in the end, BO will be flying regular commercial runs with stage reuse next year.
and where has anybody gotten free healthcare out of this?
Yeah. of course, the biggest importers of middle eastern oil is Europe, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and then America. So, that brings us back to wondering why America is being dragged into this quagmire?