I'm not sure it'd be better having big chunks of foam going into the engine turbopumps in the event of foam shedding. I think there are some loss-of-engine situations (losing multiple engines early in the flight) that can lead to a crash.
Here are some rough calculations. Assuming an orbital speed of about 8000m/s (I think that's about right for low earth orbit), and 1kg of CO2, we get:
e=0.5*m*v^2=32MJ
Producing 1KWh of electricity seems to release about 0.3~1 kg of CO2 according to the information that I can find on the web. Converting to MJ gives about 3~10 MJ per kilo of CO2.
In other words, you waste more energy launching the CO2 than you get from producing it in the first place.
I've got a Tesla-cooked AOL CD on the wall next to me. It was fried by a quarter of a million volts from my friend's Tesla coil. The plastic is fine, but the metal was all vapourised away.
My friend also cooked a windows CD through the still-sealed box. There is just a little bit melted on each side of the box (he only needed the licence, not the CD).
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Not being allowed to publish a picture of the Eiffel tower is still crazy!
I'm not sure it'd be better having big chunks of foam going into the engine turbopumps in the event of foam shedding. I think there are some loss-of-engine situations (losing multiple engines early in the flight) that can lead to a crash.
The death star runs Gentoo, which is why they were behind schedule building it.
Oops. My parent post linked to TFA...
Apollo 17 lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt suffered hay fever due to all the moon dust floating around in the lunar module.
e=0.5*m*v^2=32MJ
Producing 1KWh of electricity seems to release about 0.3~1 kg of CO2 according to the information that I can find on the web. Converting to MJ gives about 3~10 MJ per kilo of CO2.
In other words, you waste more energy launching the CO2 than you get from producing it in the first place.
I've got a Tesla-cooked AOL CD on the wall next to me. It was fried by a quarter of a million volts from my friend's Tesla coil. The plastic is fine, but the metal was all vapourised away.
My friend also cooked a windows CD through the still-sealed box. There is just a little bit melted on each side of the box (he only needed the licence, not the CD).