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Re:A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at ... by wavesounds on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @01:04AM (#18388763)
Another good example of how investing in NASA helps our economy by facilitating the discovery of new technology.
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Re:A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at ... by beefield on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @01:30AM (#18388850)
Government intervention. Not good. Much better would be letting free markets to allocate more resources to figure out how to get people clicking more ads and development of cryptocurrencies.

(This was sarcasm.)

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Re:A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at ... by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:03AM (#18389941)
While I generally agree, the free market did give us the likes of Tesla and SpaceX. The optimal strategy is to allow both.
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Re:A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at ... by CPLX on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:22AM (#18390016)
The amount of government subsidies to both those companies has been staggering. Neither of those are free market stories.
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Re:A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at ... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:01AM (#18390182)
And it took nearly 50 years before a company dared to get into that market.
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Re:A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at ... by pythonaut_16 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:45AM (#18391391)
Has the government "subsidized" SpaceX? AFAIK the government has been a consistent customer of SpaceX and they've leased facilities from NASA but it seems that overall they aren't being subsidized but rather patronized.
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Re:A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at ... by brohee on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:15PM (#18395735)
You are aware than the government pays SpaceX more than market price right? The difference is itemized as "additional checks", but it's subsidies in anything but name.
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