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Comment Re:Yet more satelittes (Score 1) 18

I would say no. If you reduce competition, you will ultimately have higher prices. The more groups competing, the cheaper the prices. If you stopped here - you would have to declare SpaceX the winner with no one else allowed to compete? If there are too many system launched than can be sustained, then groups will go bankrupt. Someone will either buy them on the cheap and make them competitive or not. Better to implement rules behind the ability for all satellites to deorbit in a certain length of time so when folks go under, they can be forced to deorbit their satellites.

Comment Re:We're not there yet. (Score 1) 89

Tesla's roughly 3 million vehicles (worldwide, not just in the U.S.) is a very small fraction of those. And I'd like to know where your claim of "tens of billions of miles" driven by Tesla cars came from, although I have a good idea you're sitting on it. Just 1 billion miles divided between 3 million vehicles is well over 300 million miles per vehicle, and you're claiming tens of billions of miles.

Missed the sarcasm tag so just in case . 1 million cars doing 1,000 miles per month is 1 Billion miles. Worldwide Tesla has 4 million plus sales. US between 1-2 million. So yes, billions of miles. They publish their safety data for Tesla with and without auto pilot. FSD beta improves with each iteration.

In G-d We trust. Everyone else - bring data.

Comment Re:And how many of those were Starlink? (Score 3, Insightful) 24

Starlink is owned by SpaceX. SpaceX is even launching competitor satellites. SpaceX is private. We do not know how much additional funding - if any - has been used but it’s possible, even with a per flight price way below the historical competition, they are making enough money to build Starlink. What is your point?

Comment Re: Quick! Buy solar panels! (Score 1) 112

You really only need to cover about 4 hours with batteries for demand to fall sufficiently for the black outs to stop. In Texas, we have almost no residential customers with any electric plans that vary with time of day. This needs to change to encourage demand shifts. This would reduce peak need.

Comment Nuclear takes too long to build. (Score 1) 274

At this point, new nuclear is useless. Battery technology is coming along fast enough that it will supplant the need for new nuclear plants. Westport has already demonstrated an LNG type engine running on hydrogen. Shutting down nuclear before it’s time, completely stupid.

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