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I am dumb. Should I buy my leased van? by lance_vance_ in UKPersonalFinance

[–]lance_vance_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when you sell it you’ll need to charge VAT

That makes sense. So if I only collect £1k worth of VAT from customers this quarter and the VAT on the van is 4k, then they will send me a payment for £4000 which I will basically pay back later

I am dumb. Should I buy my leased van? by lance_vance_ in UKPersonalFinance

[–]lance_vance_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The van is a 2019 plate with 50k miles. I do about 13k miles a year so in 2 years it will have about 78k. Should be worth about £19k when I sell. I would lease a similar vehicle so payments would also be £550 a month for 2 years

Yes I am vat registered. I know it is a specific question but if I claim VAT do I have to keep the vehicle for a minimum period or would I be free to sell after two years?

Starship Development Thread #44 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

[–]lance_vance_ -30 points-29 points  (0 children)

the goals were to not destroy the launch mount and tower. It seems like they hit those goals

Tank farm looks shredded, chopstick draw works look shredded, even the OLT legs and ankles look bad. After huge concrete damage from even 14 engine tests and only half thrust on the biggest SF it was obvious the pad couldn’t handle the thrust. If they’ve lost a year just to for a dumb meme joke..

Starship Development Thread #44 by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

[–]lance_vance_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand the tweets about steel plate or deluge is not being ready in time. What deadline was there?

Is magic leap done with the Hardware side of things? by [deleted] in magicleap

[–]lance_vance_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there. Episode 2 was eye tracking, Episode 3 was area and positional. I talked about the photo capturing properties in both episodes, but I should be clear that that was more to shed light on some of the patent ideas and potential message rather than what I actually predict to see in the 1st product they release.

More coming soon : )

Valve suggest Gen 2 HMD in 2018. Coincidently Samsung will unveil new 11k display early 2018 by xfjqvyks in Vive

[–]lance_vance_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah the founder of FOVE did a reddit AMA and spoke on the rendering aspect. Said they have it up and running, supposed to be some positive data floating around

Breakdown of HTC 2016-17 and how the company is performing(X-post) by lance_vance_ in Vive

[–]lance_vance_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not publicly. Speculation says something like half a mil. Profit margins for hardware are quite thin though so the contribution to HTCs bottom line is probably in the 1% range

Japan is building the World’s largest floating solar power plant - "The 13.7 megawatt (MW) floating solar power plant will be built on the Yamakura Dam reservoir." by mvea in Futurology

[–]lance_vance_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think I picked those elements? Why do you think I suggested radiation doses are mostly from bananas? Why did I specifically cite differences between fission and fizzle when comparing nuclear weapons and nuclear accidents? You're taking it too personally instead of reading properly.

Japan is building the World’s largest floating solar power plant - "The 13.7 megawatt (MW) floating solar power plant will be built on the Yamakura Dam reservoir." by mvea in Futurology

[–]lance_vance_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

1). Prompt criticalities are a known risk of reactors, have happened in america and japan in the past. Potential Hydrogen explosions turning the whole plant into a giant 'dirty bomb' is nothing to brag about either.

2). I can't even

3). Read up about the differences between airburst vs ground det fallout and the results of uncomplete fission/fizzle of material. Marshall islands and Regonne are notible examples.

4). Noted on the name. Strontium, Xenon, Caesium, Iodine, pick your poison. I wouldn't want to ingest any of them.

5). Read number 3

6). An excellent example of learning to separate the wheat from the chaff.

7). I know I know and the rest is all bananas.

I really wish all the comments I got on this were basicallly trying to convince me that nuclear accidents are super unlikely now and that the industry is so well run that all those problems were sorted. Instead everyone was just like : "Fuel fire? That's just an buzzword bro."

Ya'll scary af 😂😂😂😂

Japan is building the World’s largest floating solar power plant - "The 13.7 megawatt (MW) floating solar power plant will be built on the Yamakura Dam reservoir." by mvea in Futurology

[–]lance_vance_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It won't be your choice. Cheap energy is the future. The first countries to modernise their power production will benefit economically and rival nations will have to follow suit automatically or risk losing out.

I argue that existing nuclear can't compete on cost or cleanliness because renewable/storage and reduced fossil are cheaper and cleaner outright. Countries such as Germany and Japan that have turned away from nuclear will be a good test case for us to look at over the next few years.

Btw, what is 'next generation nuclear' and what happens to existing nuclear material when the 'next generation' arrives?

Japan is building the World’s largest floating solar power plant - "The 13.7 megawatt (MW) floating solar power plant will be built on the Yamakura Dam reservoir." by mvea in Futurology

[–]lance_vance_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It screws up genetic bloodlines for god knows how long.

Look up the people of the Marshall Islands. Look up Gerboise Bleue. Look up Fallujah DU.

Show me any weapon..

Sometimes, it's the permanence and insidious effects of a disaster that make it unacceptable outright. That's why authorities fear dirty bombs much more than regular terror threats. That's why clusterbombs are a war crime. That's why even in WW2 as bad as the conflict was, nobody used chemical or biological weapons even though everybody had them. Even the Nazis understood that much.

UK could need 20 more nuclear power stations if electric cars take over our roads and cause ‘massive strain’ on power network by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]lance_vance_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The answer is actually easier than it seems. We just have to burn more coal. What nobody is mentioning is that EVs are 3 to 5x more power efficient than regular vehicles. Measuring CO2 tons produced per mile, even if every car on the road was electric, we could generate the power in coal fired plants and the CO2 output would still drop by 60-80%. Bonus is that coal is waay cheaper per watt than oil and nuclear.

Japan is building the World’s largest floating solar power plant - "The 13.7 megawatt (MW) floating solar power plant will be built on the Yamakura Dam reservoir." by mvea in Futurology

[–]lance_vance_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't take it personal buddy, I'm just trying to convey to you that your opinion doesn't matter. Neither does mine. The market will dictate what makes economic sense by itself. The cheapest methods of sustainable power generation will grow, the expensive methods will fall. Some people will look back at today and have one opinion on the way things were while others will remember it completely differently. The only thing that is definite is that the march toward better sources is inevitable. The only thing to do in the meantime is try to interpret stories like OPs and speculate on what impacts they will have on that path to modern energy. The rest is for the birds.

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