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>were wading through the local mud ... It’s tap water! If it has mercury in it then the real article should be about mercury in the tap water! On this point, i

>were wading through the local mud ... It’s tap water! If it has mercury in it then the real article should be about mercury in the tap water! On this point, if I have pesticide on my boots and rinse them with potable water, that water now has pesticide in it. Also, that local mud is also known as a wildlife habitat, so yes, we shouldn't be adding mercury to it. Also, we can't just throw away Earth for the sake of 'reaching for the stars'. Right now SpaceX is a cell tower installation business, nothing more. I'm not concerned what Elon's "stated goals" are.

jiggawatts 2y ago
At no point did the article make any verified claim about anything in the water other than H2O. The title is fiction. SpaceX almost certainly uses zero mercury in their rockets, and if they do use tiny amounts, it’ll be a in the electronics and not getting washed into the water in appreciable amounts. The fuel is natural gas and oxygen. Where’s the mercury coming from!?
- formlessentity 2y ago
  All hydrocarbon fuels have mercury and it needs to be scrubbed at the refineries.
  - jiggawatts 2y ago
    And you're saying that every single natural gas user is individually held up in their projects, like cooking dinner, because of this? Or just SpaceX, an end-user of natural gas, not a refiner of it.
- ath3nd 2y ago
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  - ripjaygn 2y ago
    Let me explain it to you. > 2. There is mercury in the water dumped by the facility, detected by the agency that is supposed to be detecting this. The issue is that you're taking a hitpiece written by someone that appears to hate Musk for political reasons(based on her other blog articles) as truth. Published by CNBC who has hated Tesla and Musk since forever because they mean fewer profits for legacy car companies and big oil. The source of confusion is a typo in the document which overstated mercury concentration by a factor of thousand, the rest is exaggeration and fiction pushed all over the news cycle and Reddit. Does falling for misinformation in this day and age enrage you or outrage you? Does it make you wonder what else you're falling for? Or will you just get defensive and keep arguing fiction? This correction won't reach the vast majority of people who saw the headline who will continue to believe falsehoods about SpaceX. So mission accomplished for the "reporter" and CNBC. This is just sad. Would it blow your mind to learn that similar fake news was employed by reputable news outlets like AP News on the Tesla Swedish union strike story where multiple news outlets claimed(and still do) that all 120 Tesla mechanics "walked off the job" when only about 35 did and the rest refused to participate in the strike?
    - ath3nd 2y ago
      > This correction won't reach the vast majority of people who saw the headline who will continue to believe falsehoods about SpaceX Whether it's a typo or not is irrelevant. "Ahead of its second launch, SpaceX reportedly bypassed regulatory permit processes regarding pollutant discharge limits, as well as failed to provide detailed explanations on how it planned to treat its wastewater." This cowboy-ass attitude of "do now, give documentation later" might fly in other areas, but when we are talking about rockets and water pollution, it gotta be caution first. If the agency that's tasked with checking these limits tells you to stop until they can verify what you are doing is within regulatory limits, you stop. Which Musk's company failed to do. "Meanwhile, the same chart lists multiple pollutants at concentrations at or above TCEQ and EPA standards, including total suspended solids, cyanide, copper, and chromium" That doesn't sound like a typo to me. > Would it blow your mind to learn that similar fake news was employed by reputable news outlets like AP News on the Tesla Swedish union strike story where multiple news outlets claimed(and still do) that all 120 Tesla mechanics "walked off the job" Would it blow your mind that during the Twitter layoffs, Elon tried to immediately fire many many engineers in Europe (e.g the Netherlands), who had permanent contracts. That's illegal. This half-brained mofo has believed too much in the praise he gets from right-wing trolls/simps, but laws are laws. If Tesla workers in Sweden want to unionize, they will. And you can't fire people without notice who have a permanent contract in the Netherlands. I would totally not surprised if the guy is dumping all kind of shit in Texas's water, as he's totally deluded and out of his mind.

jiggawatts 2y ago

At no point did the article make any verified claim about anything in the water other than H2O. The title is fiction. SpaceX almost certainly uses zero mercury in their rockets, and if they do use tiny amounts, it’ll be a in the electronics and not getting washed into the water in appreciable amounts. The fuel is natural gas and oxygen. Where’s the mercury coming from!?

formlessentity 2y ago
All hydrocarbon fuels have mercury and it needs to be scrubbed at the refineries.
- jiggawatts 2y ago
  And you're saying that every single natural gas user is individually held up in their projects, like cooking dinner, because of this? Or just SpaceX, an end-user of natural gas, not a refiner of it.
ath3nd 2y ago
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- ripjaygn 2y ago
  Let me explain it to you. > 2. There is mercury in the water dumped by the facility, detected by the agency that is supposed to be detecting this. The issue is that you're taking a hitpiece written by someone that appears to hate Musk for political reasons(based on her other blog articles) as truth. Published by CNBC who has hated Tesla and Musk since forever because they mean fewer profits for legacy car companies and big oil. The source of confusion is a typo in the document which overstated mercury concentration by a factor of thousand, the rest is exaggeration and fiction pushed all over the news cycle and Reddit. Does falling for misinformation in this day and age enrage you or outrage you? Does it make you wonder what else you're falling for? Or will you just get defensive and keep arguing fiction? This correction won't reach the vast majority of people who saw the headline who will continue to believe falsehoods about SpaceX. So mission accomplished for the "reporter" and CNBC. This is just sad. Would it blow your mind to learn that similar fake news was employed by reputable news outlets like AP News on the Tesla Swedish union strike story where multiple news outlets claimed(and still do) that all 120 Tesla mechanics "walked off the job" when only about 35 did and the rest refused to participate in the strike?
  - ath3nd 2y ago
    > This correction won't reach the vast majority of people who saw the headline who will continue to believe falsehoods about SpaceX Whether it's a typo or not is irrelevant. "Ahead of its second launch, SpaceX reportedly bypassed regulatory permit processes regarding pollutant discharge limits, as well as failed to provide detailed explanations on how it planned to treat its wastewater." This cowboy-ass attitude of "do now, give documentation later" might fly in other areas, but when we are talking about rockets and water pollution, it gotta be caution first. If the agency that's tasked with checking these limits tells you to stop until they can verify what you are doing is within regulatory limits, you stop. Which Musk's company failed to do. "Meanwhile, the same chart lists multiple pollutants at concentrations at or above TCEQ and EPA standards, including total suspended solids, cyanide, copper, and chromium" That doesn't sound like a typo to me. > Would it blow your mind to learn that similar fake news was employed by reputable news outlets like AP News on the Tesla Swedish union strike story where multiple news outlets claimed(and still do) that all 120 Tesla mechanics "walked off the job" Would it blow your mind that during the Twitter layoffs, Elon tried to immediately fire many many engineers in Europe (e.g the Netherlands), who had permanent contracts. That's illegal. This half-brained mofo has believed too much in the praise he gets from right-wing trolls/simps, but laws are laws. If Tesla workers in Sweden want to unionize, they will. And you can't fire people without notice who have a permanent contract in the Netherlands. I would totally not surprised if the guy is dumping all kind of shit in Texas's water, as he's totally deluded and out of his mind.