This seems pretty ambitious on China’s part.
Category Archives: Economics
The Lockdowns
As some of us predicted, they were probably the greatest public-health mistake in human history.
The Globalists
The G7 summit shows that they are in big trouble.
I don’t think they realize what is coming to them politically.
An ELEO Thought Experiment
Imagine that you could have 150,000 tons of cargo (or people) delivered to equatorial LEO annually, at $60/lbm. What would you do with it? What are the markets? We’re talking on the order of $5B/year.
[Update late afternoon]
Note that that’s less than a quarter of the NASA budget…
For that money, we could have 150,000 tons of material/people in orbit, or pay for another year of SLS/Orion.
[Friday-morning update]
Thanks to a comment, I went and rechecked, and found an error in the spreadsheet. The cost is more like $20/lbm.
The Killing Of Kern County
The economic lunacy and destruction by California’s Democrats continues apace.
Net Zero
The West’s suicide note.
Asteroids
Martin Elvis has what looks to be an interesting new book out.
Dark Skies
Jeff Greason reviews Deudney’s anti-space screed. He is the opposite of impressed.
Where We Are now
Biden Failing
This is going to be a failed presidency, that deserves to fail.