Spaceport Bar

Heath Haussaman notes how draft agreements for future "spaceport" tenants are being waved around to stir up excitement in advance of a tax vote in Sierra County.

The Rocket Racing League’s announcement, made today, is one of several in recent days designed to fill the news with positive headlines in advance of next week’s vote in Sierra  County.  State officials did the same just before the Doña Ana County tax vote last year.

From the Rocket Racing League's website:

The NASCAR-style racing league features rocket-powered aircraft that will be flown by top pilots through a 'three-dimensional track way' at venues throughout the world. With millions of fans who enjoy racing and air shows, and an even wider audience enthralled with humanity's next step into space, rocket racing is destined to become the future of racing!

There will be a swank spaceport bar with drinks named after space heros.  But it may be crowded with  those millions of fans and even wider audiences.  It seems pretty darn hard to reconcile rocket racing with peak oil.  But we can talk about it over a Buckaroo Bonzai - Wild Turkey over 1/2 oz. plum wine. 

Comments

[Ferris Valyn]

Its not hard to reconcile rocket racing with peak oil - Rocket racing is helping to develop cheap access to space, which can help deal with the issues raised by peak oil, through use of space based solar power.

[Coco]

Sure. Sort of like how NASCAR has helped us develop fuel efficient vehicles?

[Ferris Valyn]

Not really, no

more like this - for us to have cheap access to space, we need engines that don't need to be disassembled after every flight. And we need to be able to fuel vehicles in something that doesn't require hours, or even days in some case - what we need is rapid turn around - XCOR and Armadillo, the companies who are working on the engine systems for the X-Racers, have/are developing those technologies, and in some cases, already have.

And with those technologies (and more importantly operations and systems) in place, you get cheap access, which means you can tap into SBSP.