Comment on Terraform Industries actually created synthetic methane from sunlight, water, and air

• photon_echo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Guess you’ve never heard of a fistulated cow before, they can totally connect tubing or pipes to cows to harvest methane straight out of their intestines.

  And the cost for fistulating each cow? And how much methane will such a cow produce? How contaminated will the methane be? What methods would be required to refine it to pipeline grade? Further, can you feed a cow with the output overproduction of a PV solar panel?

  This is what I meant when I said cows wouldn’t be economically viable sources of methane from electricity. If you think cows are they, then I won’t stop you though.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Now see, this is the kind of content I like to see, informative and educational banter, with thoughts, opinions, and relevant links 👍

    Now, what ever happened to regularly riding horses around? I mean hell, they’re self-fueled lawnmowers that double as transportation…

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    • photon_echo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Now, what ever happened to regularly riding horses around?

      Besides the issue with horse excrement, other issues occurred (Hayden, 2016):
      
      Dead horses often clogged city streets;
      In New York City in 1880, 15,000 horses died on the streets, or 41 dead horses a day (which had to be removed);
      Some place to stable the 100,000+ horses that operated within New York, and food to feed them;
      On a per capita basis, 19th century horse-drawn vehicle accident rates were similar to those of the automobile in the 20th century.
      

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Fair enough. They do have an easy solution for horse shit, they’re basically called shit bags.

        As far as dead horses, well I’m not exactly sure what to do with those, but then again I’m not sure what to do with all the dead/totalled vehicles out there either.

        Out in the country, we’d just haul dead horses to ‘bone hill’, as they called it. Hey, it’s no worse than a cemetery, except the exposed carcasses stinking up the area, but bone hill was well away from anyone’s house.

        Speaking of wasted land, why do humans like to collect dead bodies and waste land space?

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