Chrome Kiwi and Youtube What About It? (Felix Schlang) show how SpaceX will add a water protection system to the top of the launch stand to protect it from being damaged during launch.
The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship with improved engines will have three times the power of the Saturn V. SpaceX wants to eventually launch multiple times per day. This means all parts of the launch facility must not be damaged during launch.
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Could all that boiling water be used to power a turbine, even periodically? Maybe Musk and SapceX could start Launch Pad Energy Company (LPEC). It might mollify the EPA and other green types who are screaming, not altogether wrongly given the scaling to come, over rocket pollution and energy use. It might even be net positive for launch site energy input/output.
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“All water will need to be collected after”? Was that part of a settlement with the bureaucrats, that they couldn’t spray clean water and then let it escape to contaminate the environment with it’s cleanliness?
Not salty enough.
Not your take though, I meant the deluge water escaping goes into a saltwater marsh, so freshwater will alter local salinity.
There are additional issues with it also being classified as “process water”, which adds other EPA headaches.