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For as much environmental good as Tesla has done with pushing forwards electric cars, moronic schemes like this would totally wipe away the gains in 6 months.
by dralley 6y ago
For as much environmental good as Tesla has done with pushing forwards electric cars, moronic schemes like this would totally wipe away the gains in 6 months.
The tiny amount of work being accomplished for the ludicrous amount of fuel being used is just silly.
- jve 6y agoIf anyone wants some insights into rocket pollution: https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution/ https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution/ Even compares Starship and airplane.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThree to six times worse, ouch. Also, the article is full of baloney, like assuming rocket fuel will be made using renewable energy - it won't, because it's magnitudes cheaper to just extract it from fossil fuels, and if it was viable you could do the same for airplanes, but at an even lower cost.
- m4rtink 6y agoActually, I wonder how it compares when you consider 12 hours of fighting the air resistance versus a sub orbital hop covering the same distance in 30 minutes with only a couple minutes of draggy atmospheric flight time. Also the methane used by Starship could be synthetised possibly used captured CO2 if you had enough power available for that.