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Please Do Not Let Elon Musk Destroy the Ozone Layer
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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2024
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Of all the valid reasons to hate elon for, this is not one of them. The emissions from the entire world's satellite re-entries are basically nothing on an atmospheric scale.
The article cite a peer-reviewed scientific paper paper which indicate satellites reentry has a significant effect.
Have you published (or know of) a better research paper that show this is incorrect?
Source: Potential Ozone Depletion From Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry in the Era of Mega-Constellations
There article is about a paper showing that there's a significant increase in aluminum oxide in the atmosphere. The particulates from that are part of how the small amounts of chlorine in the atmosphere are able to destroy ozone.