The SST didn't get in trouble from environmentalists,
The environmental fight about the Concorde convinced Boeing that they could beat the environmentalists, even with an economically sound plane. The note about our Military planes shows the nonsense of the environmental argument. We have been flying them for years without any of the environmental fears coming true.
On top of this, read the story today about the "Ozone Hole" at the South Pole. In addition to losing a superior transportation system, We are destroying the worlds "Freon" refrigeration system and replacing it with a very inferior and much more costly one, all in the name of fear from the "Environmentalists."
>>>> The plane itself would climb to an altitude of 60,000 feet, nearly 20,000 feet higher than normal airplanes, putting the plane very close to the ozone layer. The engine structure for the SST (supersonic transport aircraft) requires an exotic fuel that when burned, omits nitrogen oxides (NOx) directly into the ozone layer. Another exhaust problem is the emission of water vapor and hydroxyl radicals (OH). Each of these types of exhaust emissions contributes considerably to the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is simply the warming of the lower atmosphere, allowing the upper level of the atmosphere, the stratosphere, to cool. Even minor changes in temperature in the atmosphere have a dramatic impact on weather patters across the globe (ozone depletion from jet emissions allows more ultraviolet radiation into the lower atmosphere)....In the early 1970s, the debate over the Concorde was taken up by environmental groups (the Anti-Concordists) against the purchasing of the planes by PanAmerican Airlines or any other U.S.transatlantic air carrier.....Interestingly enough, the debate centered exclusively on the Concorde, whereas the U.S. had a fleet of supersonic bombers and fighters that produced the same emissions at the same altitude.<<<<<
american.edu
newsday.com
Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Smaller
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Associated Press Writer
September 30, 2002, 3:50 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- The ozone hole over Antarctica is markedly smaller this year than in the last few years and has split in two, government scientists reported Monday.
The so-called "hole," actually an area of thinner than normal ozone, was measured at 6 million square miles in September. That compares with around 9 million square miles on September measurements over the last six years, according to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Aeronautics and Space Agency.<<<<
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