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Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” by kamray23 on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:28AM (#28243251)
That ticket price is very, very optimistic. With it's 1200 t of fuel, the starship eats 240 t of methane and 960 t of oxygen. The price for methane is around 80 cents per litre, 240 t is 520 m^3 ish, so thats $420 000. Oxygen on the other hand seems to cost $10.6/kg, giving you a number of $12 000 000. Rounds out to 12 million per a single fueling. If the Starship carries 40 people that's just enough to bring the fuel cost of the LEO -> Mars trip down to $300 000. The first trip to space must cost the same amount in Starship fuel only so that's at least $600 000 per person in fuel. And this is all ignoring the Super Heavy, which will probably raise the cost over a million, in fuel alone.
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” by tigershark on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:07AM (#28243448)
Generating liquid oxygen is two orders of magnitude cheaper, making it way cheaper than methane.
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” by __m on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:39AM (#28244928)
Plus there isn’t enough space for 40 people, real number will probably be below 20