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AtheistCrusader

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9. If by that you mean H/LOX, technically true
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:51 PM
Nov 2012

or potentially true, depending on the energy source used to obtain the hydrogen and liquid oxygen. (Hydro, wind, solar can be carbon neutral, or mostly neutral)

LOX/Kerosene not so much. Most solid propellants also have carbon cost in obtaining the materials put into the fuel, like aluminium, which has to be mined, smelted, prepared, etc, and a lot of that involves generating carbon.

But potentially, depending on the fuel, and the methods used to prepare it, it can be nearly carbon neutral.

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