Thank the green-energy cult.
[Update a few minutes later]
Smoke from the Canadian fires cut solar-power generation in half.
Category Archives: Economics
Starliner
Boeing faces hard choices.
They underestimates just how much a truly commercial program was at odds with their corporate culture. It’s why I left Rockwell thirty years ago; I understood that it was never going to be serious about private spaceflight.
Living In The Danger Zone
Jim Meigs writes about California’s disastrous fire and housing policies.
Space-Based Solar Power
This would appear to be a first in terms of tech demos.
Blended Wing Airliners
This looks promising, but there are two problems with it for me. I like windows, and the window-seat/seat looks pretty low. It will also be harder on people prone to motion sickness, because if you’re out near a side there will be much more vertical motion when it banks.
Russia’s Brain Drain
Putin’s disaster continues.
I’m working with a woman in Dubai to set up a VC fund for space. She’s from St. Petersburg, and she says she’s not going back.
The Republicans’ Choice
I suspect that once DeSantis starts to seriously go after Trump, his support will drop to only his rabid base. As Michael Barone points out, Trump’s biggest failing is his unwillingness to actually understand issues and to hire flawed “experts,” while pretending that he’s a genius.
[Update a few minutes later]
DeSantis lets slip the dogs of war in Iowa.
[Update a while later]
Trump’s latest deranged rants on his social media.
[Update late morning]
Setting the DeSantis record on Covid straight.
A Declaration Of Decadence
Bob Zubrin (with whom I had dinner Friday night in Texas) eviscerates an anti-space anti-humanist.
C. Boyden Gray
Remembering the man who warned us about the administrative state.
The Anti-Covid Policies
You don’t say. And as noted, there will probably be no political accountability, let alone anything more severe.