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by nickik 5y ago
And there is about 99% change they will not reach that. The amount of Lithium projects that have not reached there targets in the last decade is amazing. Even the expansion plans of the 'big' lithium producers have been massively
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In China I have seen some work on methanol construction vehicles. Methanol of course is made from gas usually, like hydrogen, or coal in China.
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That is a extreme minority of cases. And btw, if you actually use your batteries in a structural way, its not even clear that hydrogen cars will be so much lighter and longer range. There are very, very few cases where BEV will not work. BE
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> The solid boosters were ahead of the technology curve. It was the wrong curve. RP1 based engines like F-1 would have been far better to get of the ground. > The overall package was compromised by USAF / .mil requirements but o
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This video goes into a lot of detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSg5UfFM7NY
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Relax. It made sense to listen to them and evaluate. I'm just trying to give the information that help answer the question.
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by nickik 5y ago
Yes. And often its good to listen to them and ask why the believe what they believe. Often they can be wrong, but we should still listen to them and evaluate. Tesla tried to get into lithium extraction before and it didn't work. I thin
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Because ICE is being faces out your care is gone lose value so much faster. I don't think the insurance will normalize.
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Calculate the Lifetime difference in energy cost and compare the required cost of maintenance. Its much closer already then you think. Not to mention the EV version will give you a much better driving experience and not be unhealthy to peop
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If you think there is no money for EV infrastructure, Hydrogen infrastructure investment is about 100x more, maybe that is even an underestimation. Most people in cities don't use their cars much either. Tesla is already building super
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> but I'd swear this is not a new phenomenon. Consider actually reading it, this is pointed out in the text. > by presenting something that's rather mediocre and mundane 0% of global lithium is produced from clay extraction.
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by nickik 5y ago
For those interested 'TheLimitingFactor', the best channel on youtube about batteries has just released a long video on this. https://www.patreon.com/thelimitingfactor/posts It will be like a week or so until
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Lambert is often very competitive with Tesla and Elon doesn't like him for that reason. He is often very critical of Tesla. He never responds Electrek like he does some other blogs of that type. He far better sources on Tesla then most
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This video is very informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VHfmiwuv4
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I tend to disagree with this. If you actually go threw the N1 and how it was developed, the conclusion to me is that it wasn't really the number of engines that was the main problem. The main issue they had is basically that the NK-17
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No but there are interviews with some of the people mentioned and the auther of the book has good stories as well. - Gwynne Shotwell - Tom Mueller - Eric Berger
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SpaceX Falcon 9 overall has an incredibly good flight record. They very early had one supplier part they didn't correctly validate. The other failure (non-mission) was when they discovered a real unkown-unkown about COPV tanks and heli
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Rocket engines shouldn't be that cheap to maintain, they are designed to be very reusable, unlike Merlin they were designed for the beginning to be reusable. The whole reason for the full-flow staged cycle is to have much more reasonab
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If only he had oil platforms.
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Mostly nonsense. First of all Tesla has no sued the people that made false claim and its mostly about social media not the government. A few bureaucrats from specific regions made some comments but nothing series. Also, about the 'spyi
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No, people living like to live on the coast is the reason.
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No other system currently built will get human to Mars even non-self supporting.
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Its amazing how people endlessly talk about Germany but ignore all the other cases where Union are far less positive. How about we talk about how Venezuela Union bosses. How about the US car workers union being an endless pit of corruption.
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Israel actually supported Iran during Iran-Iraq war. The US at that point was supporting Iraq. It is really only once Iraq was defeated, that Israel turned hard against Iran. Israel is simply always against the biggest potential power in th
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The elections are legit, but you need to be vetted to be allowed to run and the position you gain is not all that powerful.
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> Which is probably why for example US made weapons have found their way via Saudi Arabia to al-Qaeda and ISIS linked groups. To be fair. The US does a whole lot of that itself. The US even helped to transport al-Qaeda troupes from Lybia
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I learned about this only 10 years ago and then it was to late already, but had they started to convert to Flex-Fuel Vehicle in the 90s it would have meant much cheaper fuel in the 2000s (because natural gas to methanol is cheap and gas was
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Well, not many of the flow batteries. The whole main concept why so many people think flow batteries are so awesome for gird storage is that you can basically have a tank size can scale arbitrary. The once that actually have some reasonably
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Maybe not fantasy. But we are far away from series large scale flow battery for grid storage. Some of the companies who wanted to build large scale flow batteries have had a lot of problems in the last decade and very few to non have manage
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That's my whole point. We are not yet at a level of penetration where that is needed, so the problem solar concentrate plants solve isn't really solved yet in general.

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