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  • I mean, the running on watts vs volts part was nonsense.

    But, did get quite close with the power calculation. Although here in the UK the average car battery seems to be around 60ah. I did see some very expensive large 105ah batteries. But they were definitely the outlier. So if you had a 100ah battery then it would be 1.2kwh with 100% efficiency.

    Also, it doesn’t mention that you’d need an inverter to make the fridge run from a battery. These also have inefficiencies which would reduce the runtime on the battery.




  • I would expect it’s the sheer number that would be BELOW the ISS. Active tracking or not, there’s already plenty of things that influence when you can launch to the ISS. Having to navigate a route through 10,000 satellites between the earth and the ISS is just adding another obstacle they don’t need.

    The article seems to make clear, they can get this if they clear it with NASA. The implication being NASA believes this will be a problem for them, and if I had to choose who to believe between a company run by Musk, and NASA. I’d choose NASA personally.