Ja, macht die Falcon Heavy mehr oder weniger überflüssig und gegen New Glenn und die Neutron dürfte es die inzwischen veraltete Falcon 9 auch schwer haben, sobald beide regelmäßig fliegen. Starship bleibt ein ... ähm ... immer kleineres Fragezeichen, besonders dessen Nutzlast.

Stabile Internetverbindungen bei Raketenlandungen sind allerdings auch hier ein Problem.

Orbán himself, e.g., isn't a Fascist. He is in no way a true-believing ideologue; he is a cynical opportunist who is expertly riding the right-wing populist wave to immense personal/familial riches and likely future immunity through wealth and connections, while leaving a looted wreck in his wake

Long term (towards 2030), I think this will start to shift to sodium. At scale, the savings in raw material cost should outweigh the cost in processing more material mass due to lower energy density. Depends on the material of course, some are about as good as LFP already, but others are cheaper.

That's just not the sort of message that spreads like wildfire in this meme-saturated world of ours. And it's a complicated message.

Doubling CO2 causes a 1.2K temperature rise, but cleaning up the regular air pollution plus warming at the end of the little ice age did almost that much already.

Most of all:

The Greenhouse Effect - and not only that - is a very compelling reason that we should really try not to double CO2 in our atmosphere and find something else instead.

Not because it's the end of the world. But because it's a really good idea and it could be quite a hassle otherwise.

Trust watts per square meter, they really seem to be accurate for all I can tell. Just don't trust the Kelvins per Watt per Square meter at the surface, this is where the problems come in. If they were right, the earth would have to be much hotter today after getting warmed by the much lower albedo.

And make no mistake. The Greenhouse effect is real. It absolutely is. But the rise in temperature caused by it is much lower and gets reduced down to the regular thermal emission of a black body with the average temperature of the earth surface.

But it's actually really simple. The surplus of absorbed photons from the lower atmosphere is emitted not through thermal radiation in random directions, but through stimulated emission by photons coming from the lower atmosphere and thus going out into space.

Also, you really notice how he is twisting himself to explain the unexplainable of what is going on in the upper atmosphere. He even slips up and says it must be getting warmer ... trouble though is, that it isn't and the theory of very high warming hinges on the top of the atmosphere staying cold.

But of course, the bottom of the ocean can respond to more carbon (as organic matter) dropping to the ocean floor and either sequester or release it ... because there is life there. It's exactly the same as on the surface. Except the ocean floor is *really* good at getting covered in organic goo.

And it's an even worse story for his carbon cycle. Notice how there is no arrow going back and forth between marine sediment (the soil at the bottom of the ocean) and the deep ocean itself? He equilibrates volcanism of 100s of millions year old rock to current sediment equilibria!

He even says (slightly exaggerated) it's 150 year old physics. And it's true. The problem is that very basic, usually post-highschool, quantum physics wasn't invented at that time.

That's why all the math is done in wavelengths, as if light was a wave. It's not. But it was in 19th century physics.