The term "re-entry pollution" is not standard; I made it up. I did not say the author conflated these terms, I said he conflated the things themselves (i.e., th

The term "re-entry pollution" is not standard; I made it up. I did not say the author conflated these terms, I said he conflated the things themselves (i.e., the concepts). Krisoft's reply to your comment explains well what's wrong with the article. That Wikipedia and the FAA do not have special terms for these distinct concepts does not mean they conflate them. Indeed, basically nobody cares about re-entry pollution because it's just an utterly trivial type of pollution (and it's the only thing this proposed tech addresses).