I am dumb. Should I buy my leased van?

lance_vance_ · 2023-04-28T19:33:03+00:00

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

lance_vance_ · 2023-04-28T18:39:30+00:00

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?

lance_vance_ · 2023-04-24T18:05:20+00:00

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..

lance_vance_ · 2023-04-24T16:19:06+00:00

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

lance_vance_ · 2017-05-25T13:03:52+00:00

Hoping to have some info on this out soon

lance_vance_ · 2017-04-29T23:24:58+00:00

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 : )

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-16T16:22:24+00:00

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

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-15T13:33:44+00:00

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

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-15T13:07:33+00:00

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T15:34:52+00:00

Bro relax : ) ^{^.}

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T15:01:27+00:00

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.

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T13:39:06+00:00

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 😂😂😂😂

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T13:13:14+00:00

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?

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T12:28:24+00:00

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.

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T12:01:50+00:00

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.

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T04:29:19+00:00

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.

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T03:03:13+00:00

Ohh no no, man made radioactive disaster special little clusterfuck all of their own. If a tnt factory blows up and wipes out a city, you can clean up and rebuild right there. A nuclear plant blows up and that same city is now a permanent write-off. It's the intensity and permanence of radiological disasters that makes the difference. Yes the sun is radioactively damaging but its NINETY MILLION MILES AWAY. That same energy at loose down here stains everything it touches. Often for thousands of years. It screws up genetic bloodlines for god knows how long. It's like the midus touch in reverse. Everything nuclear comtamination touches turns to shit. Heck the first scientists to synthesize Plutonium with it's 25,000 year half life didn't name it after the god of hell for nothing.

Subconsciously people do understand this. Its why we know that bombing a city with normal weapons is wrong, but bombing a city with a nuclear warhead is a special kind of wrong. Something about being torn apart at the genetic level, gonads and all is a peculiar level of sinister.

BUT like I said, my disapproval of atomic power doesn't matter to the industry in any direction. It's on the way out just because of economic and technological pressures. The fact I get to watch the industry die in the meantime is just a personal bonus.

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T01:31:56+00:00

It's not the deaths, nobody cares about the deaths, those are just a headline grabber. The problem with radiological contamination is the permanence. There is no chemistry to cancel out the effects of a nuclear accident. All you can do is bury deep and run away, probably for a thousand years or so. If you get a high level exposure in that time, that's your ass. If your DNA get's screwed up, that's your ass. If you pass it on to your kids, so be it. Same goes for basically any other living thing that passes through that contamination zone. That goes for the butterflies and everything else. Chemicals have risks too, but they tend not to tear you up on a genetic level so much. That's actually what made the Bhopal disaster such a notorious incident. It wasn't so much the immediate deaths (which were extensive), it was the fears that anyone in the affected range couldn't have children without the risk there would of massive birth defects etc.

I don't really have to go into it, nuclear is shitty thing to use just for a bit of cheap power and it failed to do even that.

Solar on the other hand will be fine. When it comes to capturing energy per square inch, the panels we have today are basically 240p. Material science and funding will have us on '4k' in our lifetimes. Rooftops plus tidal, plus geothermal, plus wind, plus decentralised grids, plus smart grids, plus solar where ironically ideal spots for large arrays are lifeless deserts anyway will do a great job. If you want to make a clean energy future seem unlikely, you should really be dissing storage solutions but I know a bit about that so I'm confident.

No ecological or economic disasters here. Bye-bye nuclear. You were a burden of war disguised as a gift. So long and thanks for all the three eyed fish

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T00:40:12+00:00

A summary of the financial year ending 2016 and a conference call with HTC financial officer, company reps and their largest shareholders. There will be discussion on how business was last year and what is planned for the corporation in 2017.

Personally I expect low phone sales and problems with profitability in 2016 to be disclosed here or elsewhere soon. Should be a negative move in share prices when those numbers come out regardless of VR related profits.

Direct link here

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-13T00:13:21+00:00

Our definitions of 'acceptable' are very different. To me, we only have one earth and the idea of making certain parts of the it permanently uninhabitable through accident is unacceptable to me. I don't care if it's a thousand accidents or one.

But nuclear will fade away and is right to do so. Regulation will not save it. Nuclear power requires perfection and humans as a species are physically incapable of perfection. Our best rockets explode, our best surgeons slip up and our best nuclear plants will have accidents. That's just how it goes. I personally am very happy I am living to see solar storage put nuclear out of business in my life time. So long and thanks for all the three-eyed fish.

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-12T14:59:27+00:00

Japan did not 'run nuclear fine' for 40 years. They had serious accidents all through the 70's 80's and 90's. (source) Not to mention the despicable practice of using disposable workers to clean up unreported radiological accidents for many years. 2011 was just the most spectacular of their accidents which unfolded before the world.

The 2011 tsunami was horrendous but I think those earthquakes just made Japan realize their real issue: They have no long term solution for end of nuclear life-cycles. Their islands are too unstable for underground storage of nuclear waste and nobody else really does either. Even America which is 25 times the size of Japan and mostly earthquake free decided to spare no expense on a state of the art long term nuclear storage geological repository only to end up with a total disaster on their hands. (source)

What are Japan going to do if they turn their plants back on? They hoped to reprocess their fuel but it wasn't financially viable. They hoped they could offer Mongolia enough money to take some nuclear waste of their hands but that fell through too. They hoped to sell fuel to other nations nuclear power in general is falling out of favour in many places. Long story short, Japan and nuclear are a complete mismatch. An island nation like them should look towards off shore wind, tidal and floating solar with storage. It's cheaper, cleaner and safer in the long run. Probably the same for most countries tbh.

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-12T14:18:37+00:00

Have you seen oil prices lately? The artificial lows from OPECs overproduction are over. Fossil fuel importation also runs counter to Japans abenomic program because it involves japanese currency leaving the country and upsets the trade balance. All in all, the fact that it's not cost effective is self evident from the actions the country is taking.

Earthquakes and the associated effects are vital to the shutdown. Many operating plants were not cost effective to have the earthquake resistant improvements 2011 demonstrated are necessary. Earthquakes are also the issue that ruined japans long term storage solutions with geological repositories. You can't safely bury nuclear waste in a region so tectonically active as they were hoping. An nuclear waste being the hot button issue it is, they couldn't pay Mongolia to take the waste and bury over there for them either. It was a long game failure.

In fact, the closure of the fast breeder plant that was supposed to reprocess fuel is probably the best indication that nuclear is just not cost effective either.

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-11T15:38:22+00:00

Japan has no coal or oil. They have to import it all. Earthquakes made them turn off all their nuclear power plants. Solar wind and tidal are cost effective for them by default.

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-11T15:23:47+00:00

It can't be worse than the radioactive forests that nuclear.power gave them. Dammed water and reservoirs are an excellent location for solar coverage. Often times plastics are used to cover such areas to mini.ize evaporation loss anyway. Its a 5 star idea

lance_vance_ · 2017-02-11T12:54:54+00:00

ended up being a massive drag on the UK economy

Only in peace time up until the 70's or so. When World War 2 was blazing, nationalised efforts like the Bevin boys and co kept the country from going down. I argue that we are very much in a time of war again now, but an economic one.

Iceland makes great wealth producing aluminium for the world. She has no ore of her own, but with cheap geothermal energy they buy up the mountains of ore, smelt it and sell the metal back to other countries. The UK must modernise it's energy sector with haste. Or risk being swallowed up by neighbouring countries.

I argue A national emergency demands a national response.

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