Just as example, Honda is making and selling more than ever each and every year in USA, for example.

This "OMG DOOM!" about small cars is a meme and urban legend.

Congress and their powers to tax and spend in general. That doesn't vary by specific technologies like solar vs oil, etc.

Not free, paid for by large corporations. The Inflation Reduction Act raises $300 billion over a decade by requiring large corporations to pay a 15 percent minimum tax on their profits and by enacting a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks and redemptions.

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I quote someone else saying: "The PC world might have looked very different today had Kildall's Digital Research prevailed as the operating system of choice for personal computers. DRI offered manufacturers the same low-cost licensing model which Bill Gates is today credited with inventing by sloppy journalists - only with far superior technology. DRI's roadmap showed a smooth migration to reliable multi-tasking, and in GEM, a portable graphical environment which would undoubtedly have brought the GUI to the low-cost PC desktop years before Microsoft's Windows finally emerged as a standard. But then Kildall was motivated by technical excellence, not by the need to dominate his fellow man."

And my comment on that included (removing all the supporting links):
      "We had choices as a society. I saw some of them first hand in the 1970s and 1980s when I started in computing. I bought Forth cartridges for the Commodore VIC and C64. I worked very briefly on a computer with CP/M (although using Forth on it though). The OS choice pushed by the person born with a million dollar trust fund who "dumpster dived" for OS listings won (who did little of the development work himself) -- with an empire built on QDOS which has shaky legal standing as a clone of CP/M which is probably why IBM did not buy it itself. And we were the worse for it as a society IMHO. ...
        But that problematical path would not have been possible without political and legal decisions to base the development of computing around the idea of "artificial scarcity" via copyrights and patents which set the stage for that. We still have choices, and we can still pick different ways forward. [With] the free and open source software movements, we are in a sense returning to older ways of sharing knowledge that were more popular before artificial scarcity was so broadly thought to be a good idea for promoting progress. One should always ask, "progress in what direction"? ...
    Bill Gate's could have spent his lifetime writing free software. That being born a multi-millionaire was not enough for him is a sign of an illness that causes "financial obesity", not something to be emulated. But, in the end, it is not Bill Gates who has destroyed our society as much as all the people who want to be the next Bill Gates and support regressive social policies they hope to benefit from someday. ..
      Those who have the impulse to share and cooperate more than hoard and compete are still stuck trying to navigate the economic mess we have made of today's society through artificial scarcity, the growing rich/poor divide, the diversion of so much productivity into weapons and consumer fads, and so on. The late 1960s and early 1970s when Kildall, Moore and Kay/Ingalls were having their breakthroughs were a more hopeful time in that sense. ...
    Still, the web and HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3 are a new hope for sharing via open standards, and they have been a big success in that sense. I'm moving more of my own work in that direction for that reason (even for all their own issues). Like has been said about JavaScript -- it is better than we deserve considering its history and the pressures that we all let shape it."

So, while you and others who are posting here are no doubt right on technical limits and marketing issues, I would say the "downfall" story is more complex socially than one man and his decisions with one design.

I'll again echo a key point about Gary by someone else quoted at the start: "But then Kildall was motivated by technical excellence, not by the need to dominate his fellow man." We need to build a society and an economy where people who make that choice get more support and respect.

Almost, as today, being an idiot is mandatory and fellow idiots will take you down if you don't agree to their idiotic worldviews.

"Politicized science" is the keyword here. We have the smartest people on the planet deliberately and voluntarily goring their brains out to complete today's uni.

they can get a used small car good for more than a decade, with 5 year warranty... like I did.

not seeing any problem

you're confused about something, must Chinese EV won't meet safety standards, they're deadly as a high speed golf cart. Volvo and Tesla make EV in China that would pass our safety inspections... guess what they're hella expensive!

Various ways to use tethered conductors or loops on satellites or spacecraft interacting with Earth's magnetic field or solar wind are a long discussed thing, of course no voodoo science being claimed or done there, the physics that mid 19th century scientists and engineers into electromagnetics would understand. Maybe this crank's device is exhibiting a similar effect though I'd expect it is small.

False, zionists first slaughtered over 600 unarmed villages before Israel born. IDF uses human shields, even children. Your kind of lies don't fly any more, the who world sees what Israel is.

Israel has more human rights condemnation resolutions than all other nations of the world combined.

And those residents you mention complain of discrimination and harassment, they are 2nd class citizens. Israel is a racist ultra-right state, white Ashenazi jews the preferred and master race

actually it's a kid's science experiment to do just that by hanging a properly shaped spike from a metal wire and applying EMF, ionized air provides thrust with these kind of "lifters", also can be done as a ion wind rotor. No unknown physics are at work, been done since 18th century 8D

The conservation laws are statistical, at least to a degree. Local apparent violations can be OK, provided the system as a whole absolutely complies.

There's no question that if the claim was as appears that the conservation laws would be violated system-wide, which is a big no-no.

So we need to look for alternative explanations.

The most obvious one is that the results aren't being honestly presented, that there's so much wishful thinking that the researchers are forcing the facts to fit their theory. (A tendency so well known, that it's even been used as the basis for fictional detectives.)

Never trust results that are issued in a PR statement before a paper. But these days, it's increasingly concerning that you can't trust the journals.

The next possibility is an unconsidered source of propulsion. At the top of the atmosphere, there are a few candidates, but whether they'd impart enough energy is unclear to me.

The third possibility is that the rocket imparted more energy than considered, so the initial velocity was incorrectly given.

The fourth possibility is that Earth's gravity (which is non-uniform) is lower than given in the calculations, so the acceleration calculations are off.

When dealing with tiny quantities that can be swamped by experimental error, then you need to determine if it has been. At least, after you've determined there's a quantity to examine.

Before Oct 7 Israel killed many more times the Palestinians, kidnapped many more times, murdered and stole land, did human experimentation and murder for organ harvesting, slaughtered many more times in unarmed villages.

You only care about ethnic cleansers lives and not others.

Zionism is the terrorist death cult, committing ethnic cleansing, war crimes and atrocities for decades.

That leadership has over 70 percent approval, that makes it a nation of mostly genociders and ethic cleanser even there there are that chunk of good decent people, in Knesset and in populace that decry what is happening and what has happened in decades past.

Obviously true because they use threat of nukes, "Samson Option", repeatedly, and commit atrocities.