bazus1 ,

“Let’s take all that yucky methane released by cows and make it fuel!”

  • how’s that help?
    “It keeps the carbon from entering the atmosphere.”
  • okay genius. What uses the fuel?
    “Engines I suppose”.
  • and the engine combusts it and creates…?
    “Exhaust?”
  • and that exhaust is made of…?
    “CO2 and NOx and SOx.”
  • and is released to…?
    “The atmosphere.”
  • So how does that help?
    “I have a new fuel revenue stream.”
deegeese ,
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Methane is roughy 1000x as potent at global warming as CO2.

You may not like cattle farming, but take the win.

bazus1 ,

Gonna need a source on your 1000x. I can find 27.9x the potential, per unit mass. I think my point still stands: they're taking a problem and merely converting it into a different form of the problem, and calling it a solution.

deegeese ,
@deegeese@sopuli.xyz avatar

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Aphelion ,

I think you need to compare the greenhouse effect from methane as compared to that CO2, NOx and SOx released by burning off the methane. There is a reasone the EPA requires waste water treatment plants to flare off methane rather than freely releasing it.

Enkers , (edited )

Pushing a solution that requires dependence on animal agriculture is just someone trying to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

Also, was there supposed to be a linked article?

Why does just a picture and a headline have so many upvotes? Is this community asleep at the wheel??

Never mind, it's fixed now, and the linked article clearly views the "solution" as a negative.

fishos , (edited )
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This just links to a picture?

Edit: OP fixed it. If you're not seeing it try refreshing. Federation lag and all.

silence7 OP Mod ,

Fixed.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks. Figured it was a mistake.

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