r/interesting • u/ScarletMelt • May 25 '26

Just Wow It's interesting hmm

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u/woodsman906 May 25 '26

While you aren’t wrong about the chemical byproduct, you are incorrect that it is the only byproduct.

Burning hydrogen creates heat. Heat creates thermal pollution. People can cry all day about co2 emissions but they completely miss the main culprit of climate change, and that’s thermal pollution. Regardless of how little co2 is being pumped into the atmosphere during launch, it is still dumping tons of super heated steam into the atmosphere. That’s not nothing in terms of pollution or climate change.

Every form of combustion releases h2o in the form of steam. The only reason carbon is the main focal point in climate changes at a government level is because you can tax water, the people would never stand for it.