Re: Space Travel will save the world

On Jun 30, 1:13 pm, kT <cos...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Willie.Moo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
So what you're saying is, that after another 10 years or so of posting
on the usenet, we are right back to where we started.- Hide quoted text -

Look, you can ask the question What is 1 plus 1 ?   and the answer
will be 2 - no matter if you ask the question 10years ago or today.
Its still 2.   Same here.

William, I'm fer ya, not agin ya.

But until some individual, corporation or nation executes that simple
cryogenic launch vehicle design (admittedly, the Delta IV Medium is very
close already, if they would just USE it) then nothing will be done.

We'll just be here 10 years from now, talking about the same damn thing.

We build a series of increasingly capable RLVs

I'm just proposing a single demonstration project, to get it started :

http://webpages.charter.net/tsiolkovsky/

An ill-concieved demonstration project, that is underfunded and
results in spectacular fireballs will demonstrate quite the
opposite. The first step is to get the money and power needed.

I am sponsoring 8 coal-to-liquid projects around the world. Each
project when completed produces 200,000 b/d from 30,000 tons of coal
per day using a solar-assisted Bergius process. I own 70,000 b/d
from each facility. That's a total of 560,000 b/d.

A margin of $100 per barrel translates to $56 million per day in
EBITDA. This is $1.97 billion per year.

Allocating $40 million per year to the RL10 based unit I just
described, will complete that project in 3 years - and produce $250
million per year in revenue, and EBITDA of $200 million per year.

Allocating $400 million per year to the RS-68 based unit described
earlier, will complete that project in 3 years as well - and orbit a
satellite constellation in 4 more years.

That constellation will produce $50 BILLION per year in profits - by
selling telecom services worldwide.

This money will be used to develop the super-heavy unit, along with
powersat construction - and support expeditions to Mars and the Moon
using this super-heavy RLV.

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