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My memory is fuzy on the details, but I think this is something to do with Mad Cow Disese (BSE) being caused indirectly by the old practice of feeding food wast
by adwww 7y ago
My memory is fuzy on the details, but I think this is something to do with Mad Cow Disese (BSE) being caused indirectly by the old practice of feeding food waste (containing meat) back to animals as pigswill.
When this was banned suddenly there was a lot more food waste, and also animal feed became more expesnive, and anaerobic digestion emerged as a solution to both problems.
- ZeroGravitas 7y agoIn Australia some farms installed these as a response to the carbon tax. I believe they got taxed on escaping methane if they let it decompose in the air, so it was a double win, turning a tax liability into a profit centre.
- mkj 7y agoAustralia doesn't have a carbon tax though! It's been a running theme over the past decade's various changes in Prime Ministers. A bit of a rundown https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/how-the-coalition-became-a-lightning-rod-for-climate-rage-20191113-p53aco https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/how-the-coalition-becam... Edit: oh oops. I'd forgotten it had actually existed for a while
- ZeroGravitas 7y agoNot sure if you know this and are joking, but for the benefit of others, it got introduced and revoked by a following government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_pricing_in_Australia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_pricing_in_Australia