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Re:Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 M... by dralley on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:35PM (#26417370)
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.

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Re:Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 M... by jve on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:16PM (#26417800)
If anyone wants some insights into rocket pollution: https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution/

Even compares Starship and airplane.

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Re:Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 M... by sudosysgen on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:35PM (#26418608)
Three 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.

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Re:Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 M... by m4rtink on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:42PM (#26418108)
Actually, 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.

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