Ilona Mask had to explain why SpaceX does not have electric rocket

“The Simpsons” is a record for duration, and, nevertheless, the animated series not losing its brilliance and internal energy. Brilliant jokes, parodies, ridicule of reality and love of life are all users like. The next episode , or rather, the episode, has become especially interesting.

This time I met the Simpsons Ilon Musk (sorry for the spoiler). And Lisa, a well-known animal rights activist, a conservation activist, a vegan, spoke of Mask as follows: “for a person who likes electric cars, he burns too much rocket fuel”. Ilon Musk, having learned about this episode, decided to tell why his company does not launch rockets with an electric motor (you can be absolutely sure that after the release of the series tens of thousands of people started writing to him in social networks, asking the question: “Why is there no electric rocket, Musk? Until we pollute the air? ".

The first tweet Mask was short and to the point:
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It is clear that neither on Habré nor on Gikah it is not necessary to explain to users why the “rocket” with electric motors “like that of Tesla” will not fly anywhere.

But Ilona Mask had to explain this to his opponents, who were eager to protect nature from pollution, at the same time telling why ion-powered or photon-powered engines in near-earth space would never be as effective (and why a rocket with such an engine would never take off), as on engines chemical fuels. Along the way, Musk raised the topic of “space elevators”:



In fact, at the moment there are hundreds of concepts of space orbital elevators, the authors of which freely operate with concepts like “ultrastrong nanostructures of many kilometers in length,” although such structures still have a length, calculated as maximum meters, and with reservations.

And finally, he finally had to explain why electric rail guns are not an alternative to rockets:



Here is such an interesting educational program from Ilona Mask.

And here is one of the episodes of this Simpsons series: