Not even close to true. Russia has a small set of rp-1/lox engines that are better. But our lh2/lox engines are superior to Russian engines.
Regardless, the reason why l-mart went with rd-180 was cost not because it was better. They wanted to beat Boeing's prices, which having the first stage built in nations that manipulate their money vs. $, does make it cheaper.
And that was decided by management, not the engineers.
Not really. The GOP are still working to kill private space esp spaceX. Look at the recent push by Shelby for ghoulish documentation, even though the idea of a service is to simply buy it.
Oddly, Putin is thankful that the GOP are pretty much traitors who would rather send.5-2B/year to Putin for the next 6 years, rather than spend.5-1b total getting private space going
No, we ASSUME that is what happen. Considering that we really know very little about Mars since we have very little data to work from, means that are making loads of working hypothesis and still have a lot of future work to determine what is going on.
BTW, I find it interesting that you are so sure, when here on earth with all of the work that we have done, and we still find loads of things that are wrong with our hypothesis and theories.
Cantor is about as worthless and batshit crazy as they come. THis is not about tolerance or open-mindedness. THis is about his fucking record and what a joke that dick was.
IIRC, he has a poly-sci and history background. While I think that poly-sci is worthless, the history background IS useful, if the man is able to put it all into context.
If not, then look no further than W.
HP made their massive profits by controlling their IP and making everything in-house. In this case, they have outsourced a great deal of this work. As such, it will be in China within 2 years. At that point, whitman will lose everything.
As somebody that used to work for HP, I am saddened by this. They have great tech, but whitman's run for short-term profits is destroying the company.
By the end of 2015, they will have pretty much all of America covered (not Alaska). In addition, southern Canada will have a small network. At that point, mid Canada along with Mexico, will be filled out within 2 more years.
Actually, the leaf, along with most hybrids, are HORRIBLE cars. The reason is that they force the owners to do loads of daytime charging. That is a HUGE mistake. It will drive up the demand, and then costs of daytime electricity. THat is also why I continue to say that we need to stop or lower greatly the subsidies on cars like the leaf and all hybrids. For example, 2.5K for all cars that have less than 100 MPC. $5K for all cars that have less than 150 MPC. $10K for all cars that have less than 200 MPC. and 15K for all cars with more than $250 MPC. This will encourage car makers to build batteries out that will encourage nighttime charging. This is important.
That is the SAME conversation that gas owners had in the 40-60s, and diesel had in the 70-80s. They are now gone.
By the end of 2015, that will disappear for tesla owners. Instead, tesla owners will be listening to ppl constantly grip about how they pay $100/tank fill up and that the $10 tax on it is not fair because electric cars do not have that (yet).
Not even close to true. When I was a kid in the 60's, there were damn few gas stations in the rural area. Drivers had to plan. And driving on holidays for when you needed multiple fill ups? FORGET ABOUT IT. And according to my dad, the situation was far far worse when he was in college back in the 40s/50s. As IKE's highways went up, so did the gas stations.
And as to the BS about grabbing kW of electricity from CircleK, forget about that as well. The fact is, that most electric cars MUST charge at night time, or prices will go WAY UP FOR ALL ELECTRICITY. If that happens, then you have ppl screaming about the impact that electric cars have made (rightly). Instead, the 30-40 minute wait for fill-up after driving for 4-5 hours is more than fair. All of that is being set-up by Tesla's supercharger network. By end of 2015, electric cars will be able to go across the nation cheaply.
The REAL issue is how soon a decent small car that costs an average price with top performance will come? When Tesla introduces Blue Star in 2016/7, at that moment, it is over for the major car makers that have not begun a major move to electric cars. The fact is, that when you can buy a car that is far better, safer, and cheaper to run than a BMW 3**/MB Model Cs/Caddi CTS/Lexus/etc, well, it becomes game over.
And note that Tesla's SC's are supposed to go to 160 kW. As such, it will only take about 30-40 minutes to recharge a 300 mile tesla in the coming year. And that means that for the first 15 minutes, it will deliver more than a half charge, but will then slow way down.
Keep in mind that many many car makers and their investors are shorting Tesla in a BIG way. The last thing that they want is for Tesla's tech to catch on. You will note that BMW, Toyota, Dahmler, Honda, VW, etc have pretty much signed on for methane based fuel-cells, and more diesel. All of these companies oppose pure electric cars. The reasoning is simple. Far too easy for others to break into the market.
True. In fact, I hope that Tesla has a way to charge taxes on this. At some point, we need to charge DOT taxes esp. on the daytime use of the electricity.
However, even in the most expensive states/nation, electricity is far below the costs of gas/diesel, except where gas/diesel are heavily subsidized.
By pushing this tech, he is ensuring that not only will his approach be adopted, but it will be difficult for other car makers to go with fuel cells. And as to staying with gas/diesel, I think that once blue star is out at 35K, that will stop the sales for gas/diesel. The reason is that if you can get a decent car/X-over at 35-40K, and have next to no costs in driving, well, most buyers are not fools.
The republicans (actually neo-cons and tea*) are doing their utmost to kill private space. As such, these same neo-cons/tea* that claim that Russia is an enemy and that we should not spend 1 B to get 3 private space companies going starting next year, will instead send another 2B to putin to launch us, 3-5B/year until 2025 to build the SLS, and another 2-3 B over the next 5 years to build an engine for ULA's use.
IOW, Putin can count on the GOP constiting of traitors who will continue to help him.
First off, you use ancient data for your calculations. The fact is, that data on 2012 is fully available, but you purposely choose 2010. Why? Because USA is now below 15, while China using false estimates, is now more than EU. In addition, within another 3-4 years, even the estimates on China will have higher per capita than America.
Secondly, Per capitia is one of the WORST approaches to normalization. Why? Compare China today to China 15 years ago. They were at the same emissions as India, and now, are at the same emissions as Europe (in per capita). Yet, the population did not rise, but the GDP did. BUT, the CO2 has risen way out of proportion to their $GDP. The reason is that China has chosen to cheat on just about everything. This is the same example that will be done by all other nations if allowed to.
Third, IMHO, the best normalization would be per $ GDP. A big part of this is that pollution is tied to GDP, not capita. As such, we need to get all nations to keep this low. China is NOT going to give up their all of their new coal plants easily. They are not paid for, and will insist that the west pay for them. As such, they will drop their small polluters, and continue to increase their massive investment into many many more new coal plants.
Fourth, when OCO2 comes out, it will shock the world.
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Not even close to true. Russia has a small set of rp-1/lox engines that are better. But our lh2/lox engines are superior to Russian engines. Regardless, the reason why l-mart went with rd-180 was cost not because it was better. They wanted to beat Boeing's prices, which having the first stage built in nations that manipulate their money vs. $, does make it cheaper. And that was decided by management, not the engineers.
Not even close. Chinese have regular failures. Heck, they lose one every year or two.
U mean delta, not atlas. The entire first stage is foreign made. And osc really made nothing of Antares. Heck, they do not make even the tanks.
Not really. The GOP are still working to kill private space esp spaceX. Look at the recent push by Shelby for ghoulish documentation, even though the idea of a service is to simply buy it. Oddly, Putin is thankful that the GOP are pretty much traitors who would rather send .5-2B /year to Putin for the next 6 years, rather than spend .5-1b total getting private space going
Chrysler is NOT American. It is subsidiary of Fiat.
No, we ASSUME that is what happen. Considering that we really know very little about Mars since we have very little data to work from, means that are making loads of working hypothesis and still have a lot of future work to determine what is going on.
BTW, I find it interesting that you are so sure, when here on earth with all of the work that we have done, and we still find loads of things that are wrong with our hypothesis and theories.
Seriously, this could be where a lot of Mar's water went. That is under Martian surface.
You mean like this?
Cantor is about as worthless and batshit crazy as they come. THis is not about tolerance or open-mindedness. THis is about his fucking record and what a joke that dick was.
IIRC, he has a poly-sci and history background. While I think that poly-sci is worthless, the history background IS useful, if the man is able to put it all into context.
If not, then look no further than W.
HP made their massive profits by controlling their IP and making everything in-house. In this case, they have outsourced a great deal of this work. As such, it will be in China within 2 years. At that point, whitman will lose everything.
As somebody that used to work for HP, I am saddened by this. They have great tech, but whitman's run for short-term profits is destroying the company.
And do you know the dem that is running against him? or are you against him because he is a dem?
to be fair, cantor is about as batshit crazy as they come.
However, I will be interested in seeing how brat does against the dem.
By the end of 2015, they will have pretty much all of America covered (not Alaska). In addition, southern Canada will have a small network. At that point, mid Canada along with Mexico, will be filled out within 2 more years.
wow. Tesla is the only car maker with months of back logs on cars, and you think that he is desperate? Really?
Actually, the leaf, along with most hybrids, are HORRIBLE cars. The reason is that they force the owners to do loads of daytime charging. That is a HUGE mistake. It will drive up the demand, and then costs of daytime electricity. THat is also why I continue to say that we need to stop or lower greatly the subsidies on cars like the leaf and all hybrids. For example, 2.5K for all cars that have less than 100 MPC. $5K for all cars that have less than 150 MPC. $10K for all cars that have less than 200 MPC. and 15K for all cars with more than $250 MPC.
This will encourage car makers to build batteries out that will encourage nighttime charging. This is important.
That is the SAME conversation that gas owners had in the 40-60s, and diesel had in the 70-80s. They are now gone.
By the end of 2015, that will disappear for tesla owners. Instead, tesla owners will be listening to ppl constantly grip about how they pay $100/tank fill up and that the $10 tax on it is not fair because electric cars do not have that (yet).
Not even close to true. When I was a kid in the 60's, there were damn few gas stations in the rural area. Drivers had to plan. And driving on holidays for when you needed multiple fill ups? FORGET ABOUT IT. And according to my dad, the situation was far far worse when he was in college back in the 40s/50s. As IKE's highways went up, so did the gas stations.
And as to the BS about grabbing kW of electricity from CircleK, forget about that as well.
The fact is, that most electric cars MUST charge at night time, or prices will go WAY UP FOR ALL ELECTRICITY. If that happens, then you have ppl screaming about the impact that electric cars have made (rightly). Instead, the 30-40 minute wait for fill-up after driving for 4-5 hours is more than fair. All of that is being set-up by Tesla's supercharger network. By end of 2015, electric cars will be able to go across the nation cheaply.
The REAL issue is how soon a decent small car that costs an average price with top performance will come? When Tesla introduces Blue Star in 2016/7, at that moment, it is over for the major car makers that have not begun a major move to electric cars. The fact is, that when you can buy a car that is far better, safer, and cheaper to run than a BMW 3**/MB Model Cs/Caddi CTS/Lexus/etc, well, it becomes game over.
Actually, with Tesla giving out the goodies and providing access, I hope that others will convert to his and provider adapters for their old cars.
And note that Tesla's SC's are supposed to go to 160 kW.
As such, it will only take about 30-40 minutes to recharge a 300 mile tesla in the coming year. And that means that for the first 15 minutes, it will deliver more than a half charge, but will then slow way down.
Keep in mind that many many car makers and their investors are shorting Tesla in a BIG way. The last thing that they want is for Tesla's tech to catch on. You will note that BMW, Toyota, Dahmler, Honda, VW, etc have pretty much signed on for methane based fuel-cells, and more diesel. All of these companies oppose pure electric cars. The reasoning is simple. Far too easy for others to break into the market.
True. In fact, I hope that Tesla has a way to charge taxes on this. At some point, we need to charge DOT taxes esp. on the daytime use of the electricity.
However, even in the most expensive states/nation, electricity is far below the costs of gas/diesel, except where gas/diesel are heavily subsidized.
By pushing this tech, he is ensuring that not only will his approach be adopted, but it will be difficult for other car makers to go with fuel cells. And as to staying with gas/diesel, I think that once blue star is out at 35K, that will stop the sales for gas/diesel. The reason is that if you can get a decent car/X-over at 35-40K, and have next to no costs in driving, well, most buyers are not fools.
The republicans (actually neo-cons and tea*) are doing their utmost to kill private space. As such, these same neo-cons/tea* that claim that Russia is an enemy and that we should not spend 1 B to get 3 private space companies going starting next year, will instead send another 2B to putin to launch us, 3-5B/year until 2025 to build the SLS, and another 2-3 B over the next 5 years to build an engine for ULA's use.
IOW, Putin can count on the GOP constiting of traitors who will continue to help him.
You are the one being deceiving.
First off, you use ancient data for your calculations. The fact is, that data on 2012 is fully available, but you purposely choose 2010. Why? Because USA is now below 15, while China using false estimates, is now more than EU. In addition, within another 3-4 years, even the estimates on China will have higher per capita than America.
Secondly, Per capitia is one of the WORST approaches to normalization. Why? Compare China today to China 15 years ago. They were at the same emissions as India, and now, are at the same emissions as Europe (in per capita). Yet, the population did not rise, but the GDP did. BUT, the CO2 has risen way out of proportion to their $GDP. The reason is that China has chosen to cheat on just about everything. This is the same example that will be done by all other nations if allowed to.
Third, IMHO, the best normalization would be per $ GDP. A big part of this is that pollution is tied to GDP, not capita. As such, we need to get all nations to keep this low. China is NOT going to give up their all of their new coal plants easily. They are not paid for, and will insist that the west pay for them. As such, they will drop their small polluters, and continue to increase their massive investment into many many more new coal plants.
Fourth, when OCO2 comes out, it will shock the world.