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by mschuster91 1440 days ago
> To take off we're always using fossil fuel.

While yes, this is currently true even for SpaceX whose Falcon family uses RP-1, for the future the situation looks different - Starship uses liquid oxygen (which can be obtained by air liquefaction) and methane, which can be synthesized at high efficiencies [1] in a laboratory scale or captured from landfills.

[1] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/se/d0se0...

[2] https://news.mit.edu/2022/loci-methane-emissions-landfills-0...