Just before I pop off to make tea: I do like your posts; they are almost always thoughtful and balanced. You are one of my favourite posters here :blush: (View Post)

Demand management is also a biggie. Heavy users will get cheap electricity while it is plentiful in return for switching off in times of tight supply. (View Post)

That's economic lunacy. It makes no sense at all to stop selling electricity to your neighbours because prices spike high. They'd do better to agree some sort of windfall tax on their electricity com… (View Post)

Mars is actually fiendishly difficult to land on, due to having an atmosphere, but only a very thin one. It's enough of an atmosphere to have to deal with it, but not enough to provide much in the wa… (View Post)

6 months or thereabouts is the one-way trip length. A round trip (there, loiter and back) can never take much less that 2 years or so because of the time between conjunctions of Earth and Mars. (View Post)