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Comment Tiny, Meaningless (Score 1) 176

So a country of 5.5M is going to eliminate coal as 10% of its energy supply. Golf clap. In the meantime, OPEC member Nigeria is set to have its population hit 400M and be the 3rd largest in the world, jumping past Pakistan, Brazil, Indonesia and the US, by 2050. Ethiopia with 188M and the DR Congo with 195M are going to push Mexico and Russia out of the top-10 by 2050. By 2050 the ~1300M more people in Africa, and ~900M more in Asia will get most of their energy from... wait for it... fossil fuels! By 2050 Finland will have a population of 5.8M.

Comment Ground Versus Ship Landings (Score 2) 103

The "lot less fuel" statement in the summary may be technically true, but the main reason for the drone ship versus ground landings are the launch parameters for the payload. From Florida, Dragon to the ISS is a ~50 degree inclination LEO shooting NE, whereas communication satellites are geosynchronous shooting ESE. The former launch separates stages quite close to land, whereas the latter separation is quite far out over the Atlantic.

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