• bazus1@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “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.”
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      5 months ago

      Methane is roughy 1000x as potent at global warming as CO2.

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

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        5 months ago

        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.

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      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.