Is flying missions under cost and burning investor cash to do it a success?

Secured contracts while flying under costs means you keep having to raise more revenue.

It does not solve the fundamental problem of a reusable rocket which is parallel supply chains, one to build new and one to refurbish. It's a lot cheaper to just build new unless you can scale. The scale up has never happened and isn't projected to happen.

Not really, they'd just go back to making light weight vehicles. There is no light EV that also has useful range in America and the utility of a daily driver.

A giant lithium battery is extremely destructive to the climate, and the road to more lithium is in fracking wastewater.

EVs are 100% fossil fuel products. Sodium Ion has an identical environmental impact as Lithium Ion. It's just blight. Want to conserve, drive a small battery hybrid, charge at home.

Let me repeat that in case you don't understand what I just said.

Halite is strip mined. Then through intensive industrial processes of molten sodium chloride, you get sodium.

The only difference is that there's a lot more halite to mine than current direct lithium reserves without recovery from existing industrial processes.

When it comes to transportation, pretty much unless you're walking.

But for fun, since we're now smelting Sodium to be "environmentally friendly", we need 10,000,000 continuous watts, so we need a minimum of 150,000 400 watt panels. We'll need quadruple that to charge batteries to support 24x7 operations. We're going to have to replace them every 10 years to sustain operations.

Now we're back to the problem that the Tesla battery in Australia couldn't solve. They installed it in an area that's primary industry is massive industrial smelters. The Gigabattery can run the smelter for about 3 minutes.

I'll just buy carbon offsets. Same thing, right?

They need a better hype-person, like Musk before the red pill, for that to be profitable. Next year I'm taking a trip that will generate the same co2 emissions in 16 flight hours as 500,000 miles of driving a hybrid. That's about 50 years of driving for me.

Hybrids went from gay to 200 mph race cars pretty quickly.