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re: Picture of a space shuttle leaving Earth, taken by NASA
Posted on 4/7/16 at 7:52 am to Gradual_Stroke
Posted on 4/7/16 at 7:52 am to Gradual_Stroke
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The type of fuel they use doesn't emit co2
Yes it does. Liquid fuel combustion of the shuttle's main engine emitted carbon dioxide and water vapor - harmless of course and only considered "pollution" because of the incessant drive to add additional, unjustified taxation on energy - but emitted nonetheless.
And, keep in mind a shuttle launch burns the equivalent of about 2 minutes of gasoline consumption of the United States. That's pretty staggering.
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Posted on 4/7/16 at 8:16 am to Ace Midnight
In the first youtube video posted the guy states that the boosters are burning 11,000 pounds of fuel per second. The original weight of shuttle and boosters before take off was around 4 million pounds. In 2 minutes after it took off, the shuttle and boosters had already burnt off half of that weight in propellant. That is mind blowing.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 4:21 pm to Ace Midnight
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Yes it does. Liquid fuel combustion of the shuttle's main engine emitted carbon dioxide and water vapor
The shuttle used liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen as fuel. So where does the carbon come from?
However the SRBs do emit quite a bit of CO2.
This post was edited on 4/7/16 at 4:21 pm
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