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by nickik 5y ago
Their problem was the Bezos hired a some Old Space guy as a CEO and his goal was to 'turn BlueOrigin into a series space company that can win government contract' and by that he means turning it into a traditional Old Space compan
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Mutlbile providers wasn't really a thing until Commercial Cargo and that was with fixed price. But this wasn't always true. For Commercial Lunar resupply they went with SpaceX only as well. The traditional was one supplier with co
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Such complete nonsense. Just admit that you have personal problems with those people, because your technical arguments are total nonsense.
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These companies work for NASA, NASA wants do research. Their tech enables that research. SpaceX uses that money to lower the price of space flight for everybody and enables a whole lot of other companies to do new things in space. SpaceX th
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Because BlueOrigin has nothing to offer SpaceX other then if they want to simply give money to SpaceX.
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The definition of vapoware is things that are delayed continously after they should have been released. The BE-4 fits into that.
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by nickik 5y ago
First of all, I don't suffer under a nirvana fallacy. Of course recycling uses energy. Second, I'm a huge fan of nuclear power so you don't have to convince me of that. Even if you have nuclear power, you still need EV and lo
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Funny how people like you are so desperate, at this point you literally can't even use the current quarterly report anymore and must talk about the last one. And then string together a bunch of revenue that you can then somehow argue &
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Lets compare the tech when its actually in a vehicle and being sold at a few 1000 a year at least. And then compare the whole system and end to end energy efficiency for society.
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Capitalism is private property and trade. Markets without ownership are mostly meaningless. All models of market socialism are mostly theoretical. Even the inventor market socialism didn't get far in implementing it. Yes there are some
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by nickik 5y ago
And in Q2 the lost $24M on Bitcoin. They got $300somethingM in credits. So what? Who the fuck cares. And the regulatory credit thing is so fucking played out that people who still bring it up can only be described as haters. Are you serious
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What nonsense. LiIon batteries have many cycles of reuse and they almost never get thrown away. As volume get larger literally every large players wants to recycle as that will actually be cheaper at large volume then traditional mining. As
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by nickik 5y ago
No it doesn't. Stop claiming this nonsense. It is totally irrelevant for Tesla financials.
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While it is true that Tesla might have gone bankrupt. There is a big difference between 'this is a risk company with growth potential, be careful' and 'this company is fraud'. Many TSLAQ people were far more extreme then
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Well they cheated so much money in and now they are on live suppor. But since they don't have much expenses they can survive for a long run on that money.
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The problem is that the infrastructure of ICE and oil massively profits from scale, as this drops many of these assets will turn negative. Even if per mile the car would be competitive, the lost of value of the car itself would be incredibl
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by nickik 5y ago
Literally when I first heard about the company, being interested in EV I started looking in to them. 10 minutes into a interview with the founder I was instantly convinced that they were a fake, fraud company. They had a very clear strategy
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by nickik 5y ago
All European countries pay massive amounts of money for their high speed rail. The prices costumers reflect do not cover the cost. Of course we can make some of the same assumptions about highways. If there was actual competition between th
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> SO's "innovations" were mostly just efforts to game the system. That a very reductive view on innovation. Most innovations are not some fancy new technology. They are new way to do deals and partnerships and improve over
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Antitrust historically exists because the market was working to well. The first Antitrust act in the US was about local butcher being disrupted by 'centralized' slaughterhouses (refrigerated train cars). Antitrust was literally cr
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For people that have no personal stake to say 'if we invest in this tech it would be better', well that's what people said about rockets and EV as well. I can't count how many times people in the last 10 years wanted the
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That is what is happening, but if you do that then decisions are gone take many, many years and you end up with the lowest common denominator. And those 'lords' whatever that means got that rich because they invested their persona
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Good luck betting on that. But show me the tech because: > From their website: Storage is 30% lighter, 7% smaller, and 17% less expensive than Lithium-ion battery per kWh. This is nonsense that wont happen.
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> Surely there are other EV efforts that would benefit from Toyota's manufacturing prowess and capacity. They are not actually that exceptional anymore. At best they are marginally better. Tesla new architecture of structural cells
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If you look at actual data you will see that people simply don't charge these cars as often and end up driving lots of miles with inefficient gas engines. Your analysis basically assumes that people perfectly optimize their consumption
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> That's just as green Complete nonsense. Most Hydrogen is produced with natural gas. And the conversion makes and end to end efficiency makes it actually far worse both economically and environmentally. Maybe in some imaginary fut
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I disagree. Hydrogen makes is it not easier to be fully independent. I would argue the opposite is more true.
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Why are we giving them the benefit of the doubt? Toyota has been consistently and EV. They consistently lie about emissions of their hybrids. Their marketing is always spreading FUD about EVs. Worst of all Toyota has been the leader agains
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> The big rig / semi market is the exact opposite of experiencing exponential growth Non of those are EV now. > EV sales are overwhelmingly replacement sales, largely taking up the sales from the ICE vehicle market. All those nee
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Nice sentiment but it will happen anyway. Its good.for them not wanting to make this a cornerstone of profitability as it is for traditional manufactures but its still gone make a fair amount of money.

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