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Ottolay
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I would love to see the numbers for this. A significant part of the volume in a ballistic rocket is oxidizer which a jet does not need to carry. Liquid methane is much less dense than jet fuel, so it makes sense it would take up much more
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Yet Europe still does a way better job than the US in affordable education, universal healthcare, and environmental policy.
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A few differences: - VAT is applied to business to business transactions. Sales taxes are just applied to consumer transactions. - Sales taxes are applied to total amount of sales. The amount of VAT that the user pays is on the cost of the
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The liability risk from the fires is so high nobody is going to want to invest money in PG&E to fully clear all the fire prone lines. Also significantly raising prices is usually not allowed. Instead the existing share holders just t
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The real answer is to get rid of fossil fuel powered cars - gasoline or diesel.
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It's a trade off. Diesel engines are more efficient at using the energy in the fuel and as a result produce less CO2. However, diesel engines generally produce more NO2 and particulate emissions which causes local pollution. There are