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also that methane from cow farts gets counted but if me pounding beans to produce protein at a fraction of a cows efficiency while farting up a storm is somehow
by Grimblewald 3y ago
also that methane from cow farts gets counted but if me pounding beans to produce protein at a fraction of a cows efficiency while farting up a storm is somehow carbon neutral?
- etrautmann 3y agoI would bet (and hope for your sake) that your farts are much less voluminous than most cows.
- etrautmann 3y agoRunning the numbers on this, it seems as though one cow produces as much methane as 7000 of you (500L per day vs .07 L methane if random internet sources are to be trusted)
- Grimblewald 3y agoNapkin math and unvetted reference warning but here goes: there is about 1B cows, there is about 8B humans. Fart composition matters as well, if we're counting methane as worse, more plant ingestion means higher fraction of methane. humans produce around 0.5g methane per day average beef cow of 500kg produces around 0.265g methane per day, average beef cow weighs ~1000kg, so lets say we're around on par for methane. So, if we get rid of cows and instead ingest plant matter directly, we would need to see a increase of methane production of no more than 11.11% to break even. however, if top google hits continue to be (if they ever were) reliable, we will see an increase of about 7 farts per day, from a 13-21 average for a male. This is an increase of about 33-54% so if in all the error that will exist arising from my franken-data and all the assumptions made along the way don't significant impact general accuracy, then we're not even close to breaking even.
- myshpa 3y ago[flagged]
- netsharc 3y agoHN user tries to be an expert in animal biology...
- ipaddr 3y agoHR user tries to put down another only to realize that person was head of Obama's fart counting taskforce in 2009