Tesla has announced it will stop taking Bitcoin as payment for their Electric Cars since Fossil fuels are used in the mining process....
Interestingly , the Electricity used to power Electric Cars also comes from Fossil Fuels...
The three major categories of energy for electricity generation are fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum), nuclear energy, and renewable energy sources. Most electricity is generated with steam turbines using fossil fuels, nuclear, biomass, geothermal, and solar thermal energy. - Mar. 18, 2021
Source: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php
I wonder if this means that the SpaceX rockets will also stop using Fossil Fuels to get to orbit.
That’s a lot of Solar panels to get that rocket off the ground...
The Falcon 9 burns somewhere around $200k-300k in propellant (stated to be $200k in 2015, but the vehicle's grown in size since then). For non-expendable launches, it puts about 16000 kg into orbit, so that's about $20/kg.Jan. 15, 2021
SpaceX has developed two kerosene-based engines through 2013, the Merlin 1 and Kestrel, and has publicly discussed a much larger concept engine high-level design named Merlin 2.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_rocket_engines
Kerosene is extracted from coal, oil shale, and wood, and it is primarily derived by refining petroleum. Kerosene is of course a fossil fuel since coal, oil shale, and petroleum are considered fossil fuels.
Source: https://byjus.com/questions/kerosene-is-not-a-fossil-fuel-true-or-false/
Here is a video of Billions of fossils being burned alive on the old SpaceX rocket Launch...
Source: NASA