They expect to have battery cost down to $100 per kWh later this year and at $100 per kWh including battery pack in 2020, so getting a bigger pack (let’s say 130 kWh instead of 100 kWh) shouldn’t significantly increase the cost.

What was detected was a single isotope - nuclear ramjet would spew out many different isotopes. The source was a reprocessing facility that had a delivery order from (IIRC) CERN scientists for some amount of that isotope.

Here in the EU, being on-call means that company has to pay me for it and on-call hours are limited by law.

Around $5M - boats and steerable parafoil are not very expensive compared to fairings.

Can you read? Elon already had a minimum wage salary (as dictated by law) and it will stay that way. They also have no need to renegotiate current debt.

What is dead may never die.

Its was “only” a commercial communication satellite - not a science mission.

Estimates that Hwasong-14 can reach mainland USA are based from DPRKs recent tests (from data about achieved lofted trajectory you can calculate range if fired at normal trajectory) and DIAs estimates are supported by several people who are actual experts on this, unlike Postol, whose expertise is spreading dumb…

ICBM analysis is DIA job - not something most other intel agencies deal with

You werent paying much attention if you didnt see this comming (if you are interested in this topic I highly recommend Arms Control Wonk podcast)

Reposting anything from Postol meanst that either you have no clue, or have an agenda.

That long? Last ceasefire lasted just under 2 hours....

@dave Mercedes, BMW etc. would also be deep in red if they tried to increase their production capacity by 50+% per year....

That number is preliminary - so it will go up - a lot.

Thats a complete BS - which is why you are not able to post any evidence supporting that dumb claim.

Author completely ignored existence (on both sides) of secure second strike capability -SLBMs desplyed on submarines at sea...

Both EU and China are moving towards similar standards as CARB (China is considering mandating ZEV sales to be X % of car sales, while EU is demanding lower emissions, real world testing of both emissions and fuel economy + some big a few EU cities are planning/announcing ban of diesels from 2020+.

Tesla has launch mode

Car makers can easily sell many more EVs, if they design them properly - its not like Tesla owns a monopoly on design of sleek, desirable electric cars.

That 15 ship crap isnt true - its extreme manipulation of data (usually to get to such clickbaity numbers author picks some polutant that cars produce at tiny amount and that is common in ships)