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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Green after all?
The BBC obviously read my blog about the environmental damage of the shuttle, and sent a journalist scuttling to investigate the hot sensation that I exposed.
:-)
Their response seems to suggest that it's environmental impact isn't too great, since the thrust engines' fuel only releases water vapour (that's a real simplification, but is the essence of the article).
Fair enough, I suppose, but as some of the article commenters point out, how much energy is used to create those millions of litres of fuel? I can't believe that that's an efficient process. Wikipedia doesn't seem to hold the answers, neither does Google, or, unsurprisingly, the NASA site.
:-)
Their response seems to suggest that it's environmental impact isn't too great, since the thrust engines' fuel only releases water vapour (that's a real simplification, but is the essence of the article).
Fair enough, I suppose, but as some of the article commenters point out, how much energy is used to create those millions of litres of fuel? I can't believe that that's an efficient process. Wikipedia doesn't seem to hold the answers, neither does Google, or, unsurprisingly, the NASA site.
// posted by Andy @ 8:47 am 
