Good point! I wonder how many “carbon credits” Space X needs for a launch!
how many “carbon credits” Space X needs for a launch!
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None. But you can join the Sierra Club’s lawsuit to shut down the Boca Chic site.
“I wonder how many “carbon credits” Space X needs for a launch!”
The falcon 9 puts out about the same amount of carbon as a single trans Atlantic flight would. So the carbon tax would be virtually identical in cost under a by the tonne pricing. There are scientists who have proven you could get co2 from the oceans at 35 euro per tonne. Why the oceans because they hold 150 times the carbon of the air by density so it’s immensely easier to degas seawater than to capture 400ppm out of the air. Take that co2 add in H2 from nuclear power or off peak wind which Texas has in spades a lot of nights when the wind howls in West Texas all night and everyone is sleeping the wholesale power price goes negative at times in Texas ERCOT grid it has nowhere to go. The key is low cost electrolysis at $200 kg or less capex this allows for intermittent use at economical viability for the cost of the H2 made. India’s richest man has a project to get electrolysis under $200 kg he will meet that goal for sure and use seawater to boot no need for fresh water then and you get co2 as a byproduct since the energy to make H+ and OH- already turns the seawater basic on one side and acidic on the other. Co2 comes out of solution in a basic environment the U.S. Navy is already using that very effect to make H2 and co2 directly from seawater than using WWII FT synthesis turn those gasses into jet fuel cool stuff.
What’s the point Elon plans to use the same process to make CH4 aka methane for his starship rockets using Gulf Coast water and electricity from renewables his starship rockets will be carbon neutral at worse and with co2 capture in excess of what makes the memethane carbon negative. Remember it takes one carbon and four hydrogen to make methane. He needs the synthetic methane tech on Mars where they plan to take Martian “air” which is 90% co2 and ice melted to water to make methane to fuel the rockets there so he has to have synthetic methane tech why not appease the greens in the process. It’s greenwashing and trolling at its finest.