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> Your best best is freeze it, but that requires constant energy. Making up the difference between freezing and the ambient temperature requires constant energ
by avar 8y ago
> Your best best is freeze it, but that requires constant energy.
Making up the difference between freezing and the ambient temperature requires constant energy.
China has access to a lot of land where the mean average temperature gets close to or below freezing[1], they've also got access to permafrost[2] areas.
Whether they have long-term strategic stockpiles of meat is another matter, but I don't see why running such a stockpile wouldn't be relatively cheap for them given their access to cold areas. Once you decide to store meat long enough it makes sense to put it on a train to Tibet instead of paying to keep it in a freezer in the heat by the coast.
1. https://www.topchinatravel.com/china-map/average-annual-temperature-map-of-china.htm https://www.topchinatravel.com/china-map/average-annual-temp...
2. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-permafrost-and-seasonally-frozen-ground-in-China_fig3_248243349 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-permafro...
- politician 8y agoDoes the US have long-term strategic stockpiles of meat?
- jmpman 8y agoI have a couple cans of SPAM in the pantry. Should last me a few years.
- avar 8y agoA strategic stockpile of luxury goods would be silly. In the event of a major war or other event that causes supply problems you need to provide people with their basic food needs. Doing that with canned goods or even protein bars/powder to the extent that a balanced diet requires some amount of protein is much more cost-effective and reliable. Similarly you'd stock up on something like canned lentils or chickpeas if you're worried about the carbohydrate supply, not stock up on frozen bread. But China might enact such a policy of stocking up on luxury goods since they're continually paranoid that their dictatorship is balanced on the knife-edge of "don't mind the totalitarianism as long as the trains run on time".