I hope so, because now the nuts want cows to wear diapers and have breathing masks to cut down on methane. Every day it becomes more and more light Monty Python’s flying circus
Lol... if you knew my wife's parents, you'd understand that SOME of these folks suffer zero interest in what ever issue they're exploiting today. With her parents, it's ALL about burning "great satan Amerika" down to smoldering ashes. Pretty much a quote. An insane hatred that must be experienced to believe. AND they're PROUD of it! Lmao.
Kind of like the amount of carbon that is released by a piece of wood burnt in a woodstove, vs if that same piece of wood is left to rot on the forest floor.
Methane (aka CH4 or Natural Gas) is considered 10x + greenhouse effect as CO2. According to at least a couple hypotheses, burning wood etc into CO2 suffers 10x less gross GHe than letting wood, plant matter, etc decompose into CH4.. Likewise, burning methane fuels (NG) is considered about 10x+ LESS GHe than letting that NG methane escape from ground to atmosphere. Per a few postulated hypotheses. Afaik. I concur, btw.
Y'all should try Air Purifiers. I have three running in my home. I don't like leaving windows open for security reasons. Removes PM2.5 and VOCs. They're so good they kick in to max scrubbing mode the second I f*rt LOL. The best brands I've found are Blueair and Samsung.
There was at one point concepts for harvesting grasses, bushes and other fast growing seasonal plant matter (instead of trees that are slower mutli-season growing sources) for the purpose of then using such for energy production. Not sure where that ever went.
Still there. Mostly liquid versions. I just loaded up inlaws' 200gal trailer tank with "proprietary" home brew bio for their trip home in "Smithsonian relic" VW Rabbit Diesel. Should power their transportation till Thanksgiving, at least. Their pot leaf-peace sign painted microbus serving storage shed duties since rear main spun decades ago. Main saddle stretch a common malady of the design, imo. Offered to help repower with Corvair but too "AmeriKan" for them. Go figure. Lol They're excited about ev conversion for their microbus. Still sorting design for my F350 ev conversion. Lol
Hey hey that VW is not a relic, just seasoned. I have an 82 vw rabbit diesel with a 4 speed. Just turned million miles….going strong.
The earlier concept I thought I heard about wasn't about using land suitable for normal agriculture, nor about using grains, corn or other crops like that. More I think about fast growing harsh grasses, brush and undergrowth, and from areas like swamps or other places that wouldn't normally already be in use. A whole new industry I think for harvesting and managing re-growth of plant/bio materials for such purpose. It was probably just another concept.
Biomass energy IS a thing. Much activity there. CO2 neutrality seems somewhat controversial but minimizing CH4 is why biomass energy, imo.
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I've traveled many miles with that "dumbest thing" powering various vehicles. Both SI and CI. Do I advocate it as THE solution? For ALL? Certainly NOT. For ANYone else? Individual choices there. It has its problems. Starting with hydroscopic properties. Which was why we drained our Holleys ASAP after a run at the strip. LolLOL Biomass is another "green" energy unicorn. It requires several rounds of expensive transformation to be even suitable for cars. And when it is, Ethanol is just about the dumbest thing you can put into a vehicle, especially a high performance one. It's so staggeringly irrelevant as an energy source that in 2021, it managed to contribute a whopping 5% to the United States' total energy consumption, making it just a little better than a rounding error
Today's science is whatever keeps the grant money flowing. Unfortunately there's no money in good ole reliable baseload sources like nuclear or coal or gas.
Just saw your post after I wrote mine! I wasn't denigrating your post, more responding to Spartz's post about Biomass. I know it works but we aren't as technically diligent or gifted as you, is all I meant
. I also have doubts it can scale?
Hydro's MY hero. GeoTherm too. Many disagree but till we at least decide on a language to post a "danger do not dig" sign that ppl can read many melenia from now, melenia half life fission poisons should remain unproduced. Imo.
