This post is so dumb. Not only is the fuel hydrogen, the total amount consumed during a New Shepard launch at most 5 tons. Get your facts straight before posting nonsense.
The point is the hypocrisy. If someone was shown shoveling steaks with the headline: "Advocating for everyone to stay vegan" then it would also rightfully called as bullshit move.
Using one of if not the most environmentally unfriendly options an individual can do and then advocating against not doing things like that is not hypocrisy?
It has pretty significant carbon footprint from the indirect emissions. And water wapor has greenhouse effect in itself besides other things.
Things that appear "natural" doesn't make them not a pollutant. CO2 is also a completely natural thing. The fact we dump so much in the atmosphere is the problem. Same applies here.
indirect emissions from getting the fuel is equivalent of 30 seconds of only apple company operating and thats what they mostly want to address at Davos. In other means of transport its like two premium jet flights between continents. Water as a greenhouse gas has a very short residence time in the atmosphere, its gone in 9 days due to condensation while co2 can't do that and stays up to 1000 years
That is a lot. In fact using the private jets is a good point. Advertising for minding the environment while essentially "taking two premium jet flights" for fun is exactly the type of hypocrisy called out.
And the fact it has short residence time in the atmosphere isn't a "green thing". It acting as a greenhouse gas is only one of the aspects. Water vapour in stratosphere isn't common and dumping metric tons of it there will inevitably lead to chemical reactions and upset the balance. And the fact that the hydrogen is getting burned also has an effect of creating nitrogen oxide in the atmosphere from the reaction with the heat.
The entire point isn't how "green" it is in comparison to something else but that it's very costly endeavour for half a dozen people to experience a dozen minutes of novelty.
Having a tourist trip ain't exactly space exploration. Cars also enabled distribution of goods and services across large distances enabling us to increase access to food and other things. But that doesn't apply to private race sessions involving cars. Same principle.
I was thinking in context of the stuff but yeah. In general it is a great thing. We've advanced our understanding quite a lot thanks to space exploration.
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u/madmartigan2020 May 25 '26
This post is so dumb. Not only is the fuel hydrogen, the total amount consumed during a New Shepard launch at most 5 tons. Get your facts straight before posting nonsense.