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  • Its about time! There’s nothing a permanent space station orbiting the moon can do, that a fleet of rotating Starship-class vehicles can’t do better.

    Forcing lunar landers to rendezvous with the station before attempting a landing just wastes fuel.

    Forcing a cargo ship to rendezvous with the station also wastes fuel - if a lander needs to top off its tanks before attempting a landing, why not dock it directly to the cargo ship? And then return that cargo ship to Earth to be refilled and reused again and again as a temporary supply depot.

    Hopefully they’ll fully cancel the Senate Lunch System program soon too!



























  • Delta_V@lemmy.worldOPtoNews@lemmy.worldShareholder Returns Drive Up Michigan Energy Bills
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    11 months ago

    What energy company is a natural monopoly?

    edit: are you talking about utilities that produce and distribute energy, or the companies that provide fuel for them? Because a case can be made for mining operations like Exxon & etc to be subject to market competition, whereas natural monopolies like your local electric utility should be publicly owned, i.e. owned by the government, and not have ownership shares traded privately or in public markets.