I see you finally did figure out how to do the math.
Given the Nutty Professor’s estimate of 1,000,000 tons of Sulfur needed it will only require 1,250,000 flights.
Yes, unless they decide to build a bigger version for the mission. Building a ten-thousand pound vehicle would be trivial for suborbital.
I see in the propaganda for the tourist version they say they can maybe make 2 flights a day.
That's only because they don't see a bigger demand than that for tourist flights--it's no intrinsic limitation from a design standpoint. If there were a larger market, they'd just build a bigger fleet. These things aren't any larger than a business jet, and they use less propellant. There's no reason that one couldn't do thousands of flights a day, just as business jets do.
The numbers were run at this web site. The guy who did it is an aerospace professional. Your qualifications are...?
Your qualifications are...?
Just a person who likes well written statements of facts based on sourced articles. No matter how many times you repeat a non-fact, it still won’t become a verifiable fact. All of your postings to date on this subject have been in the theoretical vein. Sure this world could do anything it sets its mind to. Does it have the will?? I doubt it. Before the world (read the good old US) invests $100B into a scheme, there will have to be a lot of Scientific FACTS brought to bear on the subject. You are doing a whole disservice to you quixotic crusade by being passionate and not practical about the problem. What is the problem?
I know that the celebrity crowd is convinced that global warming is man made. However, the science is not there. I refer you to http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/hockey.htm for some well cited science that goes a long way to dispelling the validity of the Man-Made global warming. When you can prepare a proposal that covers the concept, the development, the funding and the timeline for having a Sulfur delivery vehicle ready in time to save the planet based o the alarmist predictions of the Man-mad global warming crowd; then I’ll take you seriously. Until then your opinions are specious and disingenuous. I guess I gave away my qualifications.
I am a Vice President for the delivery of complex integrated systems to the commercial Banking and international trading arenas. I have worked on multi disciplined Government systems that addressed the professional Program development and Project management of strategic initiatives. I am in no way well versed in the passionate cause of man-made Global Warming. I am however, trained to think and make decisions on well developed facts and theories based on exhaustive research and not folklore. (Folklore is undocumented “Common Knowledge”).
So maybe that doesn’t put me in your league of an innate knowledge of things that need no documentation, but it does make me well qualified to inform you that your postings so far sound like a true Nutty Professor. You need facts and in lieu of facts, convincing scientific research to support a hypothesis when you make a statement.
I have already read his numbers. All they are proposals and fantasies. They are nothing more than “What ifs. . .” His proposals are pie in the sky. What would be the design/develop/test/deploy time lines? What would be the manufacturing time for this impressive fleet of vehicles to be delivered? All of this speculation is just that. There are no valid suggestions or recommendations on a course of action in the article. Give it up Nutty Professor. The more you rant the less relevant you sound.