The Apollo program generated the huge demand for liquid hydrogen that resulted
in a gigantic production facility in Ontario, CA. It supplied both
Rocketdyne’s Santa Susanna test facility and the Cape, all via over the road
trucks. Liquid methane is easier to truck, and much easier to ship via…well,
ship. A port to receive methane ships at SpaceX’s facility would be easy. But
Elon has evidently been developing methane sources in Texas himself.
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On Oct 11, 2021, at 5:20 PM, Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The next item down in Space News's "First Up" newsletter reports that the
environmental assessment for SpaceX's Boca Chica launch site raised an
interesting question. They're going to need methane in large quantities,
both for the rockets and for a natural-gas powerplant that's part of the site
plans. How are they going to get it there? Apparently there's no
operational gas pipeline in the area, and the current paperwork is silent on
the matter.
Henry