>>1085125>manufacturing cost How is it so many people fail to understand how F***ing expensive (excuse my language but there is a lack of words to use here) manufacturing costs really are.
Pic is a bauxite from space, I know it doesn't seem that big now that Google maps can pick out a car, but trust me this is just one of many global sites as just one of many steps needed to make your simple soda can. You want to stop and think of how big the supporting infrastructure is for a modern jet engine? Let me put it this way, part of the Internet goes just to coordinating this massive undertaking and arguably could not be done in a timely fashion without it.
>humansthere very expensive to start with, and that is before specialized training. The airforce has policy to let fighter jets crash before injury to the pilot. Not because they care about people, but because the years for training that goes into them is worth several time more then the super expensive jet they fly.
That is why LCC airlines are going this way, it really cuts costs.
>>1085130Do not get me started on batteries. They have their place s they can be miniaturized well, but Diesel actually give much better returns then most and can be made in a robust distributed carbon neutral manner, although not at scale to replace our current system as very little could now.
