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so instead of eating them we pump it into the atmosphere? :(
by tcfhgj 3y ago
so instead of eating them we pump it into the atmosphere? :(
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoI mean, do you want to eat radioactive meat? It’s been a while since I spoke with people who hunt in Germany, but there’s a whole fucking system in place for this. After you shoot them, you have to take them in to be tested. Most people do. If the meats safe you can keep it, etc, but a lot of the time in certain regions the meats contaminated (too much radiation) so it’s destroyed.
- mschuster91 3y agoBurning it is not problematic in itself, the question is if radioactive particles are scrubbed from the exhaust stream, and what happens to the solid slag.
- tcfhgj 3y agono, I don't want to eat it. But I don't want to inhale it either.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoAgreed. But it did start in the air; presumably it will return to the ground soon.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoIncinerators for waste have much stronger emission controls/scrubbers than power plants (eg the coal burning shit the Germans love) for… some reason I don’t actually understand.
- pgeorgi 3y agoEmission limits for incinerators for waste: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschv_17_2013/BJNR104400013.html#BJNR104400013BJNE000900000 https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschv_17_2013/BJNR10440... Emission limits for coal power plants: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschv_13_2021/__5.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschv_13_2021/__5.html (and a few other places in that ordinance) Some are higher, some are lower. I don't understand the rationale either, but "much stronger controls" isn't universally true.
- Gibbon1 3y agoIncinerators burn stuff that's way nastier than coal. Like vinyl chloride.
- epistasis 3y agoIf we were to eat them, surely some amount might end up as soil, but digestion and respiration means that a fair amount of the pig ends up being pumped into the atmosphere from our lungs. You can think metabolism as a sort of intricately complex burning ritual.
- dredmorbius 3y agoRespiration is based on metabolism and the overwhelmingly prominent elements in human exhalation (exclusive of preexisting atmospheric components) are carbon (as CO2) and hydrogen (as H2O), neither of which are likely radioisotopic components of contaminated food. Cesium would be excreted as solid waste, winding up in water treatment plant sludge. For combusted carcasses, absent particulates (which could be largely trapped via scubbers), that would likely wind up principally as ash.
- epistasis 3y agoI was thinking that the complaint was primarily about the CO2, but your comment makes me realize that they could have been concerned about the radiation aspects in the air too...
- dredmorbius 3y agoRadioactive boar flesh, as with all other biomass, is already in the biosphere, that is, it is not fossilised carbon being reintroduced. Contributions to increased greenhouse gasses would effectively be net zero. (Note that non-combusted boars are already expelling CO2 through respiration, as well as more potent gases such as methane through metabolism and decomposition of solid wastes. Methane production through human livestock is among the concerns of climate forcing, though I suspect wild boar populations are sufficiently small to not have a significant impact.)
- epistasis 3y agoYes, that was my point originally.