I turn crops into fertilizer after they’ve been turned into food. In fact, I am doing so as I post. 😤
Turn the byproducts into animal fodder and biofuel
Zero waste
The issue with using byproducts as animal fodder is that ruminants produce a lot of methane while digesting them. This enteric fermentation in their stomachs accounts for around 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions, while the entire aviation industry sits at just 2-3%. If we give them more food that is harder to digest, they’ll emit even more methane per animal.
Biofuels make a lot of sense though. After extracting the fuel, the remaining digestate can be used to produce biochar or be put directly on fields as fertilizer, which is nice because synthetic fertilizers account for 1-2% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Another option is to burn the byproducts for heat or electricity in winter during short periods when there’s not enough wind and solar power to cover energy demand.
Isn’t there some cow probiotics that can greatly reduce the farting? I’m sure deploying cow Beano at scale couldn’t possibly have its own set of problems!
I heard about studies that successfully used algae to inhibit methane-producing microbes in the short term, but I couldn’t find any studies that prove its long term efficacy yet. It’ll be interesting to see whether the microbes can adapt to the algae in the long term or not.
Can we eat the humans, after we fattened them up?
Humans should’ve evolved photosynthesis and just eat the sun
Sun worship is considered the most primitive of religions, and yet that’s where everything comes from. Everything. From food to heat to energy. Even fossil fuels is captured sunlight from the past, and radioactive material for nuclear power is from ancient supernovae. Everything. All praise the Sun!
The sun is also a child of those earlier giant stars. We are several generations down the line (hence why so many elements can be found on Earth).
The sun is more of a very large sibling than a parent.
Correct. Which is a supporting argument that life and intelligence might be a new thing in the universe, that it took a few billion years to just get through a few cycles of birth and death of stars to create the heavier elements needed. We could be one of the first examples.
Doesn’t rule out the Great Filter as still a thing, new life that expands too quickly and uses up resources can still kill itself in the process.
Weird to use a picture of a child predator in an unrelated meme
