Virgin Galactic | Hybrid HTPB plastic fuel

[Zeros]

Virgin Galactic will take passengers to space by 2020!

Price $250K

Burning HTPB, I’m not sure how environmentally friendly it is LOL.

Apparently an offshoot will be 2hr long haul international flights! Is this the future of international travel? let alone space travel... How will all this affect climate change? Or doesn’t it matter?

...hoping some engineers & environmentalists might share their thoughts...,

[ramblingboy42]

I was taught that energy can neither be created or destroyed, but that it moves from one form to another.

So to achieve a clean form of energy , something else has to suffer , somewhere.

Boeing wanted to build a 'sonic' aeroplane years ago and got basically savaged by airport industries worldwide because it would alter the established patterns of behaviour at domestic and international airports that have been the norm for over 60yrs.

The only passenger aeroplanes that have flown faster since the 1960 models were the limited supersonic models.

All Richard Branston has to do to up the ante is to , in the face of his adverseries , build his own airports to suit his supersonic aeroplanes. If he establishes that the airport terminals we know now will fizzle into insignificance.