You might not know it, but the hot water and rocks deep within Earth are teeming with undiscovered life. Dr. Tanvi Govil is one of the biologists studying this new frontier of microbial life that thrives in extreme places.
Not only that, but they believe the active enzymes in the microbe can be optimized and engineered, then mixed into a liquid substrate. Becomes an enzyme-based CO2 filter with the byproduct of Calcium Carbonate, which can be used in concrete. The article talks about filling trucks with these and passing the emissions of coal-fired power plants through them.
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.
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.
IIRC, most of its from their mouth actually. They’re ruminants, meaning they’re fermenting their food in their multiple stomachs. This is where most of the Methane is produced, and the pressure is released through their mouths.
The “cow farts” and “cow burps” phrasing is used to downplay the seriousness of the issue.
Global animal agriculture produces enormous quantities of cow poop, which produces enormous quantities of methane, which is one of the biggest causes of the climate catastrophe.
Anyway, yeah, I agree. It’s all a distraction. I don’t know how sayings it’s poop helps. The problem is cattle farming produces a ton of methane. The details don’t really matter.
Not only that, but they believe the active enzymes in the microbe can be optimized and engineered, then mixed into a liquid substrate. Becomes an enzyme-based CO2 filter with the byproduct of Calcium Carbonate, which can be used in concrete. The article talks about filling trucks with these and passing the emissions of coal-fired power plants through them.
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.
What about all the farting that cows do?
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.
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.
IIRC, most of its from their mouth actually. They’re ruminants, meaning they’re fermenting their food in their multiple stomachs. This is where most of the Methane is produced, and the pressure is released through their mouths.
No, it’s mostly their poop.
The “cow farts” and “cow burps” phrasing is used to downplay the seriousness of the issue.
Global animal agriculture produces enormous quantities of cow poop, which produces enormous quantities of methane, which is one of the biggest causes of the climate catastrophe.
This says otherwise.
Anyway, yeah, I agree. It’s all a distraction. I don’t know how sayings it’s poop helps. The problem is cattle farming produces a ton of methane. The details don’t really matter.
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.
Well that would be a disaster
Based on what
IPCC reports
Where
A bigger disaster than dumping it into the atmosphere?
A bigger disaster than shutting down all fossil fuel based power plants yesterday