Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: booster pollution
Message-ID: <1990Jan18.162642.15393@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <15378@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1990Jan6.060300.13029@utzoo.uucp> <9635@hoptoad.uucp> <19771@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1990Jan15.164939.29641@utzoo.uucp> <0Zgv2xK00XcS4==Vhj@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 90 16:26:42 GMT

In article <0Zgv2xK00XcS4==Vhj@andrew.cmu.edu> dd2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Alexander Davis) writes:
>Also, I heard someone mention a local problem 
>of heat pollution adversely affecting the ecology 
>of Cape Canaveral...

Sounds very implausible.  A shuttle launch is maybe 20-30 gigawatts of power
for half a minute or so (it climbs quickly, remember).  Sunlight is roughly
a gigawatt per square kilometer, continuously.  Any effects from launches
would be transient and localized.
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