Re: Shuttle Environmentally Damaging?

Kit if aluminium in solids though.

Brian

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Has anybody calculated the Shuttle's atmospheric pollution in terms
relative to automobile exhaust, instead of convention terms of tons of
this
or that per flight?

As an example, my modern car, meeting current Federal standards, with a
cleaned up exhaust, generates x amount of noxious gases and particulate
matter per a year's driving (12,000 miles). Each shuttle flight produces
y
amount of noxious gasses and particulate matter. How many x's = y?

My guess is one shuttle flight equals 100,000 cars driven a full year in
terms of damage to the environment. How close am I? If I'm off, it's
probably on the low side.

There is actually a logical reason for this type of question: If you
disconnect a single vacuum line on your car engine's emission system
(whether or not it has a significant effect), you have comitted a Federal
crime, probably a felony, though the government tries to keep the
criminal
details a secret until they pop it to you at your arrainment. Yet, there
is no Federal crime to stop NASA from pumping out a thousand tons of
poison
everytime the Shuttle flies to nowhere. Isn't that a case of "Do as I
say,
not do as I do?"

Umm, hydrogen and oxygen, when combined in a shuttle engine, produces
water vapor as a waster product. Now, show me where there is a federal
regulation against water vapor.

George



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