• Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    That would be an incredible innovation. You don’t have to stop at coal either, it’s just the dirtiest. Nat gas, trash, oil, wood and anything else burned on a huge scale could be curbed.

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      3 months ago

      Yep, you could even pepper the interstate highways of America with them and just let them passively eat the CO2 particles that cars are putting out.

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        3 months ago

        The trouble with cow farts is the methane, a much more potent greenhouse gas that eventually turns back into CO2 in the atmosphere anyway. Concentrated methane sources tend to either be captured for use as fuel, or flared with a burning flame to reduce the greenhouse effect (at which point carbon sequestering might work). Less concentrated sources, like livestock farts, can’t really be dealr with in the same way.

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        3 months ago

        That’s methane. And it’s mostly from their poop, not farting.

        It’s a disaster. And that industru is also a major cause of deforestation.

        We have to stop buying meat.