Submitted 6 months ago by Gamers_Mate@kbin.social to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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I was thinking of making lemonade and was wondering if it would let CO2 into the atmosphere or not.
Yes. Carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide. But the volume you’ll be releasing wouldn’t even show up as a 10th decimal rounding error, so I wouldn’t worry. Just breathing will release more.
Also CO2 is a natural part of the carbon cycle. It’s still needed and used by the nature around you.
Advocate for change, but enjoy your lemonade :)
You’ve unintentionally stolen a classic climate denier line, just FYI
Yeah but we have too much of it now lol.
Not to mention that CO2 was previously captured before you can even put it into your drink. taps temple knowingly
And any motor exponentially more than that
Sure it will, technically. It's just a zillionth of anything remotely significant, so don't worry about it.
A bottle's worth of "carbonation" is probably offset by a decent fart, let alone the perfectly normal breathing you're doing on a day to day basis.
yes but remember you breathe out co2 all the time. Making a fizzy drink is way lower than many other things you do. As one person im going back and forth on would say going vegan would massively lower the amount of co2 your responsible for putting in the atmosphere and actually just not eating beef would give you the majority of that lessening. walking/biking(even electric)/public trans instead of driving would also be huge. even if the driving was in an ev. Not using bitcoin and its ilk is big to (in absolute terms its only so big but for what it does its a massive cost in energy). The single biggest thing a person can do is not have kids although thats a big ask but the co2 of most eco friendly folks is going to still not be low enough if you have a kid and he has a kid and so on. So for example the average french person is about 5 tons of carbon a year while the average north american is 3x that. so you start adding capita and thats way more carbon. Anyway worry about the fizzy drink is sorta a penny wise pound foolish type of thing as far as global warming goes and honestly its not really causing any more of general pollution which is an issue even if we found some unlimited energy source to do sequestration.
Thanks I have been vegan since 2018. Though I was interested in Bitcoin a few years ago before I learned how bad it was.
If I wanted kids I would look into adopting but I have heard that is really complicated.
yeah. few folks are going to be competing with those low carbon chops.
Not using bitcoin and its ilk is big to (in absolute terms its only so big but for what it does its a massive cost in energy).
I mean, yes, and no, Bitcoin actually produces less CO2 than the alternative, it’s just that people won’t ever stop using the alternative so all of that CO2 will continue being created. People have this wrong idea that Bitcoin replaces credit cards, when in fact what it replaces is money. And Money is a CO2 hell, it’s made of cotton, so you need to add the CO2 cost of producing, transporting and processing the cotton, add the cost of manufacturing the inks, printing the actual money, transporting it again, then all of the CO2 cost in keeping that safe, moving it from one place to another, etc, etc, etc… Yes, Bitcoin and the like consume a lot of electricity, but most server farms are in zones where electricity is very cheap, and that usually means green energy (hydroelectric, wind and solar plants produce a lot of surplus energy, so they sell it very cheap, which is why you’ll see most server farms for Bitcoin are located near such plants), but Bitcoin could process Visa level amount of transactions with that same amount of energy, i.e. it doesn’t need a certain amount of energy to process a single payment it needs a certain amount of energy to process a block of transactions, regardless of block size, which means that theoretically Bitcoin could replace all of the money in the world using the same amount of electricity it’s using now. And the hardware for the server farms could theoretically be old GPUs that would otherwise become e-waste.
Having said that there are technical limitations and a long debate on how to better scale Bitcoin, and old cards will never be as profitable as new ones so it’s unlikely that old cards would get used for mining, but they could if Bitcoin (or others) were designed around that idea. At the end of the day my point is that most people don’t consider the scale of what Bitcoin is replacing.
Carbonated water and the byproduct of baking soda reacting with an acid both off gas carbon dioxide. Mixing carbonated water with lemonade will produce slightly fizzy lemonade. Adding baking soda to lemonade will just release the gas into the atmosphere unless you do it in a closed container like a soda bottle which is potentially extremely unsafe if you don’t know how much baking soda to add. Adding baking soda in a closed container may carbonate the lemonade because the CO2 dissolves into solution instead of escaping, but it’s also likely to explode if the container can’t withstand the pressure or has a defect.
So Kind of like a Kombucha bottle if you don't open it every day due to excess gas.
I offer you 3 better alternatives to daily burping for fermentation.
Good: Latex balloon with a pinhole in it. Stretch the neck over the opening of the container, when uninflated the pinhole is too small to let contaminates in, as the off gassing inflates the balloon the pinhole expands and the gasses are released.
Pros- cheap, latex balloons are ubiquitous, not opening the container reduces the risk of infection
Cons- stretching and wear to balloon prevents reuse, risk of tearing or slipping allowing too much gas to escape and contaminates to enter the container, vigorous fermentation may fill balloon with liquid/foam or cause a blowout
Better: Airlock
Pros- easiest option, airlock will be designed for use with container with no modification or customisation, least interaction needed generally no action will needed during fermentation but occasionally airlock may need refilled, resistant to blowout and fluid/foam leakage
Cons- if there is a blowout it will be spectacular and potentially dangerous, can be difficult to find and expensive if not using one of a few standard types of fermentation containers,
Best: Blow off tube, run a tube from the opening of the container to a container of water with the fermenter end having an airtight seal and the water end submerged. Water level must be below the level of the liquid in the fermenter.
Pros- blowout proof, resistant to fluid/foam leakage and leakage is generally contained in the water container, all materials are available at hardware or craft stores and at most big box stores
Cons- creating an airtight seal can be tricky for non-standard containers, requires the most space and materials
yup
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Yes, except don’t do this.
The reaction is
NaHCO~3~ + CH~3~COOH -> Na^+^ + CH3COO^-^ + + H~2~O + CO~2~
If you know how to read those. Sure the CO2 is the same if you let the vessel pressurise but that sodium ion and ethanoate isn’t! Sodium salts taste well very salty. It’ll ruin the lemonade
Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 6 months ago
Good point Salty lemonade does not sound very nice.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Yeah I tried this once as a kid haha. You neutralise a bunch of the acid so it isn’t crisp and sharp, instead it tastes like mildly lemon salt.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
oh sorry brain fart, replace ethanoic acid with critic, same difference really it’ll still be salty. I thought you meant adding vinegar and bicard like highschool science to make co2.
If you want though you can generate the co2 that way separately and pump the gas into the lemonade. That’ll not ruin the flavour
sparky678348@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You can edit your comment if you’re so inclined.
I appreciate all of this chemistry trivia ❤️
xkforce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Actually adding baking soda and an acid to drinks is a fairly well traveled (and old fashioned) means of carbonating them. The contribution of the Sodium to the taste of the drink usually isn’t very high and adding sugar further reduces its effects.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Really? But to get decent carbonation you would need to add a lot. Like 15 grams or so because dissolution is not very efficient, most the co2 is going to pressurise the headspace