Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere
pennomi@lemmy.world 18 hours agoThere’s no way burning satellites are putting enough energy into the atmosphere to heat it up. They cause other problems like ozone degradation and serious aerosol pollution.
Rockets on the other hand put a lot of greenhouse gasses high up in the atmosphere, including incredibly potent greenhouse gasses like water vapor. These launches account for a meaningful percentage of all emissions.
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
You’re not crashing the entire rocket, just a tiny bit of it. Also, generating direct energy has never been a climate change issue, it’s the byproducts of that generating that are fucking us up.
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
As I said, only the energy of the satellite, not the entire rocket, which is a miniscule fraction of the energy the launch used.
Also pointing out that it really doesn’t matter, in terms of energy, potential or otherwise. It’s only the byproducts that can have any major impact.