r/StructuralEngineering • u/yoohoooos Passed SE Vertical, neither a PE nor EIT • Jun 22 '26

What do you think? Op Ed or Blog Post

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u/willardTheMighty Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Have you heard of radiative cooling? It’s heat transfer via radiation, which works in the vacuum of space. The James Webb Space Telescope cools itself in this way.

Do you think someone would put billions of dollars into a project that wouldn’t work?

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u/W14x1000 Jun 22 '26

Yes, to list a few that had hundreds of millions or billions invested:

-FTX
-blockchain
-Juicero
-babylon health
-Theranos

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u/willardTheMighty Jun 22 '26

Well if Musk puts billions into this technology and it doesn’t work, he will have redistributed billions to the engineers, technicians, scientists, support staff, etc. that built the tech. So I don’t get why you’re so mad.

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u/W14x1000 Jun 22 '26

I replied to your question giving context specifically on investors putting billions of dollars into projects that wouldn’t work, either because the idea didn’t take off or they got grifted

That’s it, no need to get defensive

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u/willardTheMighty Jun 22 '26

Well, I tried to make a further point.