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  1. olofscience
    If their margins can afford it, and it means taking more market share from the incumbent turbine manufacturers then some will do it. I actually work for a fairly successful company who uses this exact strategy.
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    Some of the savings will be cheaper "fuel", but the main savings will be in the MRO. 2 or 3 orders of magnitude fewer moving parts adds up to a lot of maintenance savings, as well as normal operating temperatures being quite a bit lower (not counting thermal runaway). Fewer parts to TSO will also save a bit on certification (which the manufacturers will pass on to users anyway). For turbines, capital cost could also be a major source of savings - superalloys in the turbine section aren't cheap to make, electric motors would be a lot cheaper. However this benefit is wiped out by expensive lithium batteries, hence some attention on overcoming the current disadvantages of LFP.
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    Well you must have skipped classes too, since you fail at the very basics of the amendments. You need a supermajority in Congress to be able to change the Constitution. The election was actually quite disastrous for Democrats so that's out of the question. Democracy is in danger, but the threat is not where you think it's coming from.
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    The issue was with the 787, not the A380. You can't just extrapolate this time from Tesla cars to aircraft - Teslas are made of steel, which withstands much higher temperatures than the aluminium used in aircraft. Since TWA 800 aircraft have also had inerting systems and fire suppression systems, but these won't be as effective for a thermal runaway. The 787 issue was eventually worked around by putting a heavy steel container around the battery and a venting system to vent gases in case of thermal runaway, but the same solution would kill an electric aircraft's viability.
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    Then you must have missed the post where I did. Keep up, old man.
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    I have no idea if that's right about markharju, but your description fits an acquaintance of mine here in the UK very closely. And yes, he's full of hate, bitterness and regret. And to him BBC is "fake news" while he parrots RT and the Daily Mail.
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    Nope, because I'm actually part of those "other demographic groups". What, did you think I'm "old, white, and male"?
  8. olofscience
    I'm not quite sure you know what "first-hand video evidence" means
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    I'd put this with the "Edinburgh is being overrun with mosques" file. Anyone in DC care to back this up?
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    Paid for by taxpayers as part of "equality" initiatives since Cambridge is the usual destination of the aristocracy in the UK. He managed to fuck up his career after that but that's a different story. I'm definitely pro the science side of things (as you can probably tell by my username) and agree with this. However as much as I love science, I'm very thankful to things like Netflix for getting me through the last lockdown. Try going through life without watching TV shows, movies, video games, or any form that needs the arts - they're a much bigger part of the world than you probably realise.
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    You're about as right about this as your predictions about post-election violence. But then your prediction about post-election violence depended on your prediction that Trump was going to win, so that's another wrong prediction that "we heard here first". Why should I listen to you again?
  12. olofscience
    Well you were very quick to equate a Biden staffer to "this piece of shit" that was voted in by "leftist fucktards". Well in the UK, 1929 is already a cake-walk. We've had the biggest fall in 300 years. Met someone complaining about almost exactly the same things as you - he was complaining about young 'uns being entitled by complaining about their £50,000 student debts. He got a free ride to Cambridge in the 70s, and could not see the irony.
  13. olofscience
    Then Congress will have to write a bill, and vote on it, then the Senate will vote on it too. Who holds the Senate again? Please educate yourself on how things work. A Biden staffer calling for something isn't worth getting angry about.
  14. olofscience
    What use is that anger then? Trump is challenging democracy by refusing to concede. Which is far more consequential than what someone wrote on a random website. Any anger on that?
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    Yeah but he wasn't voted into office. Your brain might struggle to tell people apart - you should get it checked - but he's not Biden. Additionally, the president can't change state laws. Trump is trying and failing, especially with state election laws.
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    Actually, I checked again and the piece was written by a Richard Stengel. I don't remember anyone voting him into office, the person who won was Joe Biden. basically markharju: random columnist: says something markharju: AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH Biden's implementing ORWELLIAN laws kill them all! $%"£^%$£%$ You do know something a columnist says doesn't make it law right? Nor does it mean everyone agrees with the columnist, least of all the new president-elect.
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    I actually read the article, it says no such thing about nationalizing thought crimes. He says at the end: Now I don't even know this person, but he doesn't represent the Biden administration or the entire left. So why are you implying the entire left is calling for this? Do you think he represents the Biden administration? He doesn't, he's just one opinion columnist. Trump lost, get over it. Get some therapy.
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    That it didn't stop you from posting hate speech in this forum, so you shouldn't get your panties in a twist over the Washington Post calling for a similar law.
  19. olofscience
    You're in Germany, aren't you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung
  20. olofscience
    Skydivers are just people, and nothing special. In fact, the demographics skew skydivers to be old, white, male (84%), ex-military and conservative, and sexism and racism has been a problem in my DZ. The sport is inching towards slightly more diversity, but there's a long way to go.
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    Individual particles are, but they're more likely to get transmitted via larger drops with more viruses rather than individual floating viruses. Evidence is emerging that initial viral load determines whether a case is serious or not. So even cloth masks would reduce this. Historically only about 5% of vaccines ever developed have been approved. So this statement is very inaccurate. You think the vaccine developers don't know that?
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    I'm skeptical about this - with 750kW output, the P100D's battery would only last a theoretical max of 8 minutes, probably less. Do you have a source?
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    Back to the topic of electric aircraft then. My main problem at the moment is MagniX hasn't released the weight or battery details for the electric caravan that flew earlier this year. If I had those numbers we'd be able to calculate many other metrics such as climb performance, payload, etc. I might be able to squeeze the numbers out of this sentence, but it's pretty annoying not having the actual numbers.
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    Nope, complete lies. The sad thing is you're lying to yourself.
  25. olofscience
    I think electrification will actually bring this question sooner to aviation - like how electric cars offered advantages in developing self-driving cars. But yes, it is a different question so I'll probably start a different forum post to discuss this.