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Default No, this can't be true, the hard core righties say they don't work!
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:40:30 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:21:47 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

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Almost every invention when first developed was too expensive,
unreliable, etc.

And an alarming number remain that way until they fade away.
Go find a stack of popular mechanics magazines from the 50s and 60s
and you will see that far more than half of their "wonderful
inventions" are not with us today.

As Tim Wilson says "where the **** is my jet pack?"
http://forum.grasscity.com/music-gen...im-wilson.html

Yeah, the car, the bike, the lawnmower, the electric light, the outboard
motor, the refrigerator, the air conditioner, the cotton gin, the steam
engine, the rifle, and on and on...... All too expensive and unreliable
when first brought out......

An alarming number of failed designs in all of those products were
hyped to the max and then discarded.
Where is the turbine car? The Wankel? The gyrojet rifle? The Lisa? The
Betamax? the 8 track?

The point is that just because someone comes out with a product that
seems to be better (like Beta and the 8 track), time and the market
will decide if it really succeeds.

How many of those products were government subsidized like a Tesla car?

Actually, through various grants and subsidies, quite a lot of them.

Yeah, the government has a long rich history of backing losers.

Solyendra is one example but you have things like GM and the space
shuttle that we know are flawed but we keep throwing money at them
until they crash and burn. GM still owes the government an amount
equal to 100% of it's outstanding stock shares but the government only
holds a third of them.
The shuttle is a good metaphor for that. 40% vehicles that ever flew,
ended their life in a crash with the loss of all hands. It also
sucked most of the money out of NASA so there was no money left to
design a better platform. It is a private company that has the only
American path to space.

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