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Maybe, but the shipping costs are killer and physics puts a hard minimum on the price. We have plenty of earthbound motivation to solve the "energy too cheap t
by stickfigure 1y ago
Maybe, but the shipping costs are killer and physics puts a hard minimum on the price.
We have plenty of earthbound motivation to solve the "energy too cheap to meter" problem. We're nowhere near that. Adding one more big energy consumer (moving cargo to/from orbit) does not make a material difference.
- AtlasBarfed 1y agoWhat's your hard minimum on price? Starship is supposed (Musk hype warning!) to be 1/10th to 1/100th the cost. We haven't done skyhooks or launch loops or launch cannons, which are large upfront projects but once built are semi-permanent economic gamechangers.