At no point did the article make any verified claim about anything in the water other than H2O. The title is fiction.
SpaceX almost certainly uses zero mercury in their rockets, and if they do use tiny amounts, it’ll be a in the electronics and not getting washed into the water in appreciable amounts.
The fuel is natural gas and oxygen. Where’s the mercury coming from!?
"Teague said he’s especially concerned about the concentration of mercury in the wastewater from the SpaceX water deluge system. The levels disclosed in the document represent “very large exceedances of the mercury water quality criteria,” Teague said."
Let me explain it to you.
1. Tap water comes in the SpaceX facility.
2. There is mercury in the water dumped by the facility, detected by the agency that is supposed to be detecting this.
3. Mercury is bad, if you don't believe me, try drinking water contaminated with mercury and report back.
That, in summary, means SpaceX is doing a very very bad thing. Does this enrage you or outrage you?
> 2. There is mercury in the water dumped by the facility, detected by the agency that is supposed to be detecting this.
The issue is that you're taking a hitpiece written by someone that appears to hate Musk for political reasons(based on her other blog articles) as truth. Published by CNBC who has hated Tesla and Musk since forever because they mean fewer profits for legacy car companies and big oil.
The source of confusion is a typo in the document which overstated mercury concentration by a factor of thousand, the rest is exaggeration and fiction pushed all over the news cycle and Reddit.
Does falling for misinformation in this day and age enrage you or outrage you? Does it make you wonder what else you're falling for? Or will you just get defensive and keep arguing fiction? This correction won't reach the vast majority of people who saw the headline who will continue to believe falsehoods about SpaceX. So mission accomplished for the "reporter" and CNBC. This is just sad.
Would it blow your mind to learn that similar fake news was employed by reputable news outlets like AP News on the Tesla Swedish union strike story where multiple news outlets claimed(and still do) that all 120 Tesla mechanics "walked off the job" when only about 35 did and the rest refused to participate in the strike?
> This correction won't reach the vast majority of people who saw the headline who will continue to believe falsehoods about SpaceX
Whether it's a typo or not is irrelevant.
"Ahead of its second launch, SpaceX reportedly bypassed regulatory permit processes regarding pollutant discharge limits, as well as failed to provide detailed explanations on how it planned to treat its wastewater."
This cowboy-ass attitude of "do now, give documentation later" might fly in other areas, but when we are talking about rockets and water pollution, it gotta be caution first.
If the agency that's tasked with checking these limits tells you to stop until they can verify what you are doing is within regulatory limits, you stop. Which Musk's company failed to do.
"Meanwhile, the same chart lists multiple pollutants at concentrations at or above TCEQ and EPA standards, including total suspended solids, cyanide, copper, and chromium"
That doesn't sound like a typo to me.
> Would it blow your mind to learn that similar fake news was employed by reputable news outlets like AP News on the Tesla Swedish union strike story where multiple news outlets claimed(and still do) that all 120 Tesla mechanics "walked off the job"
Would it blow your mind that during the Twitter layoffs, Elon tried to immediately fire many many engineers in Europe (e.g the Netherlands), who had permanent contracts. That's illegal. This half-brained mofo has believed too much in the praise he gets from right-wing trolls/simps, but laws are laws. If Tesla workers in Sweden want to unionize, they will. And you can't fire people without notice who have a permanent contract in the Netherlands.
I would totally not surprised if the guy is dumping all kind of shit in Texas's water, as he's totally deluded and out of his mind.
> If the agency that's tasked with checking these limits tells you to stop until they can verify what you are doing is within regulatory limits, you stop. Which Musk's company failed to do
Not true, see below.
> “Throughout our ongoing coordination with both TCEQ and the EPA, we have explicitly asked if operation of the deluge system needed to stop and we were informed that operations could continue,”
EPA and TCEQ have enough authority to stop SpaceX if they're actually doing something harmful.
> If Tesla workers in Sweden want to unionize, they will
Exactly, the media doesn't need to make up fake news to make Tesla look bad, which they have been, and is sad to see.
SpaceX almost certainly uses zero mercury in their rockets, and if they do use tiny amounts, it’ll be a in the electronics and not getting washed into the water in appreciable amounts.
The fuel is natural gas and oxygen. Where’s the mercury coming from!?