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I’m really not sure. CAFE is a _really_ stupid way to encourage fuel efficiency. You can create efficient cars, but if people don’t buy them, you’re still screwed. I believe Jalopnik has also pointed out that the perverted way it calculates fleet fuel mileage has also led to the demise of the North American small…

You’re totally right that the rest of the trip (and possibly including the temperature in the cargo hold) is going to be awful for the animal.

Which aircraft? Anything large and going to 30,000ft is going to just chuck all the cargo in a pressurized area to prevent idiot passengers from packing things that are going to blow up when exposed to low pressure.

Every airliner that goes to altitude has pressurized cargo holds. It would be an immense amount of engineering work to only pressurize the passenger half of an airliner, since the circular cross-section of the entire fuselage is a much better pressure vessel than the D-shaped passenger compartment.

That’s all well and good, but $4/hr doesn’t come close to paying for basically anything. I’ve recently moved from a situation like yours to starting a startup, and living on effectively $15/hr goddamn sucks.

My best guess is they’re walking into the unseen edge of a door.

The program had to have its budget repeatedly increased (from an initial $1B to $3B), and the cars it was scrapping were _specifically_ running/driving used cars, but those that were crappy enough to make the rebate worth it. This would exactly be the sub-$5k used car market.

A big part of used car prices increasing was because the government paid people to destroy old used cars with cash-for-clunkers.

Someone _should_ tell them what’s best for them, because not all of them will have the capability to do this analysis themselves. If nobody analyzes this stuff, the only info you’ll get is from Uber/Lyft themselves.

It is possible to ship hydrogen places. It’s a pain in the ass, like I mentioned, and so is generally limited to heavily subsidized trial networks. Given that electricity and hydrocarbons are already available just about anywhere, it’s a tough ask to say “let’s build a completely separate distribution network for this…

There’s already an electron-delivery network to just about every spot on the planet. You just have to build a couple plugs for the vehicle you’re selling.

It’s not functionally identical to gasoline, is the problem: it’s _really_ hard to safely ship and store.

Free agency seems fine. Let the universities compete for the athletes like they compete for coaches, with their wallets. If a superstar gets paid and a scrub doesn’t, that doesn’t really bug me. It might cause friction in the locker room, but that’s up to the GM/coach/athletics department to figure out. Somehow every…

The NCAA is a sports league. Like any other sports league, it should pay the players in cash according to their market value, rather than paying with with scholarships. If the player wants to be paid by scholarship, have at it. We all know the players on D1 Football/Basketball teams aren’t there to learn, so let’s…

Even if it’s initially not worth it, since SpaceX is the manufacturer of the fairing, they can redesign it to be more easily reusable, which is what they’ve done with their existing rockets.

Ontario (Canada) does this too.

Maybe it’ll turn into a car version of track cycling, where the leader and pursuer compete to be the slowest until the leader thinks they’ve got an advantage. It’d make for an awful-long 500 mile race though.

I think the real mission comes in a few hours: They want to demonstrate to the USAF the ability to fire the 2nd stage 6 hours after liftoff. If they can do that, it’s qualified to do direct injection to geostationary orbit. In this case they’re going to Mars, but the important part is the ability to coast to GEO and…

A high-end cyclist can put out about 300W for an hour or so. A high-end Tesla has a 100kWh battery. So the cyclist would be generating 0.3kWh/hr, and it’d take about 333 hours. Assuming perfect energy conversion. Batteries are pretty efficient, so let’s say 400 hours at 300W.