https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1fJChrJniU
I think he has a good point. There are a lot of environmentalists who like to think the reason we haven't go all renewable is because we aren't trying hard enough or because of the oil/coal lobby (well, they do have something to do with it, but it's not solely their blame), when in reality there are very serious and challenging engineering and technological hurdles that would need to be overcome to get there.
It's almost like a simplified propaganda aimed at children is bound to be flawed even if it has a noble intent.
Start working with India - they're pioneering Thorium reactors. With the resources of the West behind that research initiative it'd be sure to yield answers sooner.
I hate to bring this up all the time, but livestock agriculture has the biggest impact on the environment than coal and petroleum production and use, and we don't require any tech advancements to reduce our dependency on it, just cultural change.
However back to video, more investment in renewable tech will obviously improve it, but I do believe that social and political pressure will support that with subsidies etc.
One of the best solutions for our livestock problems-
http://intainforma.inta.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/vaca-inta-3.jpg
Methane Reclamation might look and sound silly, but turning one the largest contributors to greenhouse gasses into a clean burning biofuel is a solid (albeit smelly) idea.
I mean, that does solve a problem, but only one of many. What about waste disposal, deforestation, land use, water use, etc.?
That looks like it is stupidly inconvenient and impractical for any kind of real-world scenario.
You know, I can only conclude looking at that that they've stuck a hose up the cows ass and it probably doesn't like that very much.
or we could just stick to next generation uranium ones which are readily avalible if we ever built them
Or go with one that is the safer option with more long term feasability.
But sure, Uranium.
I thought they had a solution with having the cows eat genetically modified seaweed(?) to solve that
Either or both.
I feel at this point, just do 'something'...
Its not like we're going to run out of uranium anytime soon and the shortcomings of our waste/fuel cycle are still there with thorium
Latest uranium ones are long term feasible and incredibly safe. Thorium is great but also any plants in the west would probably take decades before you could even start building them whereas the newest Uranium ones could be built within a decade if we wanted to. As much as anything they're not mutually exclusive, you can build one and research the other at the same time.
I think lab grown meats are more practical to scale up though, and are probably even more nature friendly
its going to be all about branding, if we can sell whateverthehell quorn is I think lab grown actual meat will be a seller.
Looks to me like the tube goes through the side of the cow and into its digestive tract.
Honestly advancing technology is easier than cultural change. There are a number of routes, lab grown meat seems like the most promising in terms of problems to be solved. Forced cultural shifts are exceptionally hard and often seen as totalitarian or evil, because it's manipulation on a societal scale. It's also associated with totalitarian regimes purging people and companies they don't want.
I think Captain Planet should have been a woman.
The show would work better if they just summoned Gaia directly.
The obvious solution is to allow cows to eat what evolution designed them to eat - grass.
Not corn or seaweed or any other substitute that makes the cows sick and so requires tons of medication to be injected into their bodies.
Why not kosher weed?
You could have a field full of the freshest, greenest grass imaginable, and a field full of kosher weed surrounded by barbed wire fencing and an alligator moat, and those cows will trample over each other to get to that kosher weed.
We'll sooner have lab grown meats than convincing the south to give up BBQ because the environment.
Yeah honestly my money is on fake meat and lab grown meat being the driving force for reducing livestock agriculture, especially when it gets cheaper and easier to make than it does to farm.
It solves the environment and ethical issues with livestock agriculture, and meat is delicious.
Cows evolved to eat grass, but grass did not evolve to be eaten by cows. That's no reason to think you couldn't create a better food.
So... not this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJaELXadKo
iirc it wasn't a replacement, just mixed into what they eat, and i highly doubt seaweed was going to make them sick.
Do you have any source that it makes them sick?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/interviews/pollan.html
The problem with this system, or one of the problems with this system, is that cows are not evolved to digest corn. It creates all sorts of problems for them. The rumen is designed for grass. And corn is just too rich, too starchy. So as soon as you introduce corn, the animal is liable to get sick.
It creates a whole [host] of changes to the animal. So you have to essentially teach them how to eat corn. You teach their bodies to adjust. And this is done in something called the backgrounding pen at the ranch, which is kind of the prep school for the feedlot. Here's where you teach them how to eat corn.
You start giving them antibiotics, because as soon as you give them corn, you've disturbed their digestion, and they're apt to get sick, so you then have to give them drugs. That's how you get in this whole cycle of drugs and meat. By feeding them what they're not equipped to eat well, we then go down this path of technological fixes, and the first is the antibiotics. Once they start eating the [corn], they're more vulnerable. They're stressed, so they're more vulnerable to all the different diseases cows get. But specifically they get bloat, which is just a horrible thing to happen. They stop ruminating.
What do we do about that? Another antibiotic. ... Most cows on feedlots eating this rich diet of corn are prone to having their livers damaged. So to prevent that, or limit the incidence of liver disease, we have to give them another antibiotic.
Pretty sure he was referencing seaweed. Corn being shit for cattle is pretty well known.
Looks like the seaweed additive is mixed in at about 1:100 ratio with their normal feed. So pretty small amounts. It reduces emissions by about 30 percent.
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