Comments by "SeanBZA" (@SeanBZA) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1.  @michaireneuszjakubowski5289  Thing is that as a single aircraft it had a very limited lifetime, your airframe needs periodic inspection, and this is actually more expensive than building the aircraft new again. Hopefully they will build at least 2 new ones, as the cargo capability will be used for sure, and having two or more makes the cost so much lower to maintain, as your costs to manufacture is not linear with number, and building 2 or more, with the knowledge from the years of running the first one, will not be as expensive, as the new ones will have all the fixes that went into the first one, and thus will be much improved. Yes it needs to be rebuilt, another casualty of this senseless posturing.
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  2. True, but to get bulk cargo up it will work, simply because electric power is cheaper than fossil fuel, especially if you can have peak power use from renewable resources, and the motor set used to launch can make a pretty effective energy store as well, for recovering energy.
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