Submitted by anonymous494921 t3_11a99in in space
Doomenate t1_j9qspcn wrote
Reply to comment by HerrJemine in If the cost comes down why don’t we shoot water into space to reduce rising sea levels? by anonymous494921
It's funny your mention SLS. The payload is 231,485 lbs, but the liquid fuel is hydrogen and oxygen which combined after combusting would become 2,177,000 lbs of water. So we'd be splitting 2 million pounds of water into hydrogen and oxygen just to combine it again to move 200k pounds of water into LEO.
Might as well skip the launch and keep the fuel separated!
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