Frank Zegler of ULA explains. He has a follow up as well.
The whole thread is worth a read if you want to understand the potential of this technology for reusable orbital systems.
Category Archives: Economics
ObamaCare Costs
We were promised a $2500 decrease in premiums. We’re getting a 41% increase.
It’s like the whole thing was some sort of scam.
Automakers To Gearheads
Stop repairing your own car.
This is an amazingly different country than the one I grew up in.
“Green” Fracking
…from a new fluid.
This is far from a mature technology.
The Moon And Mars
…are technically and financially feasible.
But not the way NASA and Congress want to do it.
California
…is so over:
…we are producing a California that is the polar opposite of Pat Brown’s creation. True, it has some virtues: greener, cleaner, and more “progressive” on social issues. But it’s also becoming increasingly feudal, defined by a super-affluent coastal class and an increasingly impoverished interior. As water prices rise, and farms and lawns are abandoned, there’s little thought about how to create a better future for the bulk of Californians. Like medieval peasants, millions of Californians have been force[d] to submit to the theology of our elected high priest and his acolytes, leaving behind any aspirations that the Golden State can work for them too.
I don’t know what it will take to break the back of this destructive aristocracy.
[Monday-morning update]
Jerry Brown’s Oedipal struggle.
[Bumped]
ULA’s Reuse Plans
Aviation Week has the details from the announcement at the Space Symposium earlier this week.
USDA Dietary Guidelines
Playing politics with our health.
SpaceX News
Gywnne says that the next landing attempt may be on land.
Today’s EPA Hearing On The Hill
I listened to some of it. Here is Judith Curry’s prepared testimony, and here are Moynihan’s live tweets.
The Democrats were sufficiently unhappy that they abandoned the hearing before it was over. They can’t handle the truth.
[Update in the afternoon]
Before he walked out, Professor Curry assisted one of the Democrats in beclowning himself.
[Update a few minutes later]
Post-hearing thoughts from her. I agree that the economist’s testimony was valuable, too. They basically told the Democrats that what the EPA plans to do would hit the poor hardest. Which is absolutely true.