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by cma 1735 days ago
I thought I heard that in their stream. Must have been a million lbs of fuel+oxygen and not a million gallons of fuel. Sounds like close to ~125,000lbs of CO2 emissions per passenger then.

With Starship being methane based (higher H to C ratio) and at bigger scale hopefully it gets that number down a lot.

This lists it at 1.1 million lbs fuel+oxygen and shows it being used with Dragon (did they use this or similar?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_Full_Thrust#Block_3

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From the stream: "Prior to liftoff, the Falcon 9 first stage is loaded up with nearly one million pounds of fuel and liquid oxygen." - https://youtu.be/3pv01sSq44w?t=1920