Re: Simples
So why don't they just use the Eagles to take the payload to Mt doom orbit in the first place?
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Back when I wor a lad and dinosaurs roamed the Earth - Japan was the devilishly cunning evil empire that was going to destroy all our industry and make us eat raw fish and chips.
So we banned Japanese companies like Toshiba importing components like LCD screens, forcing them to try and make laptops.
We were troubled that Nikon and Canon made lithography machines which could threaten America's lead in semi-conductors. So the USA funded Philips spinning out its lithography division into a little outfit called ASML - and that's why all semi-conductors today are made in America Holland Taiwan not Japan and security is assured.
Instead the government mandates that you buy from state approved vendors and suggests that ideally people build their own telecoms equipment rather than from commercial outfits that may have ulterior motives.
This comes after the nationalise the railways
Perhaps we could revitalise the British Steel industry with backyard furnaces?
Come, Join Chairman Boris' great leap forward(*) !
(* actual direction of leap not guaranteed)
Easier to add extra propellant mass than engineering to increase the velocity - unless you have a very long voyage planned where the amount of the stuff you chuck overboard matters.
Efficiency is just electrical power in vs kinetic energy out - more complex systems to create higher velocities would generally be less efficient.
There are community heating schemes. the problem is that in the summer people want the plant to keep running but don't want the heat. So you need to build an extra cooling system which you need to maintain all winter when you aren't using it - sometimes you even need to heat it to stop stuff freezing !
> Ironically most of those British Brilliants now want to maximize their stock options which will may conflict with the best interests of ARM future growth.
ARM is now wholly owned by Softbank (and therefore by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund) any stock options would either have been paid out or cancelled when it was bought
Are you suggesting that the government should interfere in the free markets and stop water companies being sold to foreign enterprises for some sort of spurious "good of the people" / "national interest" reasons ?
Good God man, this is only drinking water were talking about not something vital like a merchant bank
>Saudi Arabia is spooked by Iran, a lesser extent Iraq. 48 Billion & 8.4% of GDP, is highest GDP. But seems disproprotionate
Saudi Arabia is spooked by the problem of people not being able to buy oil in US $.
That's why they have to find a way of returning USD to the USA to keep the global economy running - they do this by buying vast numbers of M1 Abrams that are never going to be used.