Interesting observation about subtle change in language.
Desperate stuff by Trump. Galactic Supapowa now threatening China that it's going to produce its own cooking oil. Be very afraid!
We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution.
It‘s not a secret that it will be used for military resupply missions.Personally i think the moon and space branding around Starship is just a mirage, and i personally think will be mostly used as a point-to-point logistical hack to resupply allies and troops in Asia when a war between China-US happens in Asia. Just in time manufacturing combined with just in time logistics is probably the only way for the US to compete/keep up in Asia.
/remove tinfoil hat.
Orlando reactionSeems like a huge downgrade from Orlando Bloom…
Like the US soybeans export to China? China purchased of US soybeans to date is: ZERO. MAGA farmers are panicking.Reuters reported on September 28, 2024, that according to US government data, the United States imported approximately 1 million tons of waste cooking oil (commonly known as "gutter oil") in the first half of this year, of which approximately 60% came from China.
China's gutter oil industry reduced to zero overnight. Complete collapse. No chance of survival.
This is what annihilation looks like.
Here's the problem: for many precision magnetic applications you need custom shaped magnets. You can get them from turbines and EVs but they'll be of the wrong shape/size/orientation. Heating them over the Curie temperature removes the magnetization. Some of the magnetic field shapes are quite tricky and is done with specialized fields. Remember these have to be nm precise for wafer patterning, a poorly aligned field that causes a 1 um shift or 0.5 degree tilt is unacceptable.How much you need is the key right? Preventing smuggling or even legal purchase of thousand ton of Magnets is possible. But not if its 2-3 tons for the entire year that ASML might need. Moreover, ASML is likely not even buying these magnets directly, ASML is an assembler of other components/motors thing like that. ASML has thousands of suppliers and these suppliers are supplying to thousands of other applications. So, its not possible to target just ASML and say, don't sell this motor to ASML.
Even if China did a 100% ban of rare-earth exports to Netherlands, they still won't be able to prevent ASML production because of how little they need per machine and so few machines they make per year. Its not like cars which are produced by the millions.
The Starship would be a big fat target, hard for the HQ-29 to miss.It‘s not a secret that it will be used for military resupply missions.
That's gonna be the highest-risk, least cost-effective military resupply missions ever. Resupply via submarines is much safer.It‘s not a secret that it will be used for military resupply missions.