I heard it’s nitrogen, which I think releases co² during the production process. You’re right though, could be worse; they could’ve used hypergolic thrusters.
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ArfArfWoof@europe.pub 3 hours ago
pretty sure it’s propelled by compressed air.
still very wasteful, but at least not burning dangerous chemicals for funsies.
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Do you mean nitrous (N~2~O)? Straight up N~2~ shouldn’t be changing to CO~2~ unless some very interesting chemistry is happening, haha.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
They said during the production process, not on release.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 hours ago
I’m pretty sure the “production” process is just compressing atmospheric air and separating out the other gases. The atmosphere is 78% nitrogen.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Ooh I misread that as being on activation, good catch
CheetahHybrid@pawb.social 2 hours ago
I think what the means is that when making liquid CO2 you use a cryo-cooler. That cooler condenses the gas out of the air. Air contains CO2 and nitrogen (plus some other stuff). The games aren’t created but rather just a state change. Cryo coolers also take energy to run.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
Yeah just compressed nitrogen, but still very wasteful and excessive and stupid. That’s enough. No one said it was putting out toxins.