r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Moooses20 • Mar 06 '25

GIF RemoveDEBRIS satellite harpoons space junk in a plan to clean Earth's orbit

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u/Such--Balance Mar 06 '25

This is a bullshit fact. Not that its not true, but those few tonnes of burned aluminum are nothing to the literal thousands of tonnes burned monthly in waste incinerators world wide.

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u/Automatic-Change7932 Mar 06 '25

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2024GL109280#:\~:text=Aluminum%20oxide%20compounds%20generated%20by,lead%20to%20significant%20ozone%20depletion. It is not.

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u/Such--Balance Mar 06 '25

Did you..read it yourself?

Because i did. And it doesnt disprove my point at all.

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u/Automatic-Change7932 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Waste incinerator produce aluminum nanoparticles which are reaching the ozone layer? Doubt that.

Edit: If you downvote, at least provide facts disproving me.  "Not that its not true, but those few tonnes of burned aluminum are nothing to the literal thousands of tonnes burned monthly in waste incinerators world wide." What is even the logic here? Producing aluminum oxide on the ground is a complete different issue especially in a waste burning facility where it will most stay in the clinker than the issue of producing it in the upper atmosphere in fine particle size.