For the production of the tank itself or the likelihood of environmental impact?

Here is an article about the tank, it appears to still be in the proof of concept stage. As for my conjecture that it would likely have a high carbon impact during production that was based mostly on similar studies ~2~ done on the production of cars.

i guess both?

Something something hindenberg...

Tbf doesn’t he have a computer science degree? Which is a type of engineering degree?

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An alternative to.space junk clogging up the sky would indeed be nice.

I mean so are the shells tank fire. If you are hit hard enough to hit the fuel cell in a tank....you have other problems.

As much as it's true, not all company are doing this.
There are plenty of good East Asian company with good work life balance, especially newer company that already recognize the issue.

well Honda did this a decade later so there still is some achievement spacex has done

Of all the manufacturing companies, I would expect nothing less from Honda.

It says Honda right on the side of the engine.

The all new Honda space Odyssey! It has a great V6 rocket engine with a 6000 million mile timing belt. After that you can buy one at amazon but it lasts 4 miles or 6 minutes.

In Japan?

This is a feature, not a bug.

At the end of the day, making EV cars isn't either unfortunately...but in the grand scheme of things. Both hydrogen and EV cars are more environmentally friendly than gas powered cars.

Um, no it doesn't... At all...

This is a first step landing test, not even suborbital, it flew to a height of 300 meters. This is the point that SpaceX was at in 2011 with their grasshopper rocket.

SpaceX is regularly landing orbital hardware and working on a fully reusable rocket with a greater lifting capacity than anything else ever. It's not really the same...

But fuck Elon, no argument there.

Computer science is more of a math degree than anything else

Honda built a rocket

Me: of course they did.

They launched the rocket

Me: naturally.

They landed the rocket.

Me: on the first try?

Manufacturing of any kind always causes an environmental impact. This is the way of things.

The one thing we can't get that would mitigate the environmental costs of making stuff, is if stuff was built to last....