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Once the marginal cost of power is effectively zero, efficiency is meaningless. Thats the divergent point. Wow, that's powerful. I'm divergent. Here I thought I was just a geek. Sorry, I'll shut up and go away. 25 years ago Nicholas Negroponte at MIT's media lab asked a conference "what do you do w...

Once the marginal cost of power is effectively zero, efficiency is meaningless. Do we really care if it takes 1 kg of B-11 to ship a million kg half way around the world, or 1/2 a kg? Cost is all amortized capital costs, which moves us in favor of fast transport and more transport cycles per year's ...

The proposed Boeing Pelican would carry 2.8 million pounds of cargo on 8 GE90 jet engines, at something like 300 kts, turning 4 counter-rotating props. That converts to about 450 megawatts. http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2002/september/i_pw.html In the current version there are all kin...