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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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Bender is referring to the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury , a U.N. And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury. In 2019, a group of researchers in Italy and the United States estimated how much of the mercury used in spacecraft propellant might find its way back into Earth’s atmosphere.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Auerbach adds that due to economies of scale and over capacity in the industry “ wind energy should have a 20% reduction in equipment costs within the next year ” and he has seen realistic projections of “ solar, with a 10% tax credit, being competitive with baseline generation in 2020 ”. Earlier post.).

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