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I'm sure microwave is not always the most efficient way to cook, even for the things it actually can cook. Pressure cooking seems way better for many cases. Bu
by jacknews 2y ago
I'm sure microwave is not always the most efficient way to cook, even for the things it actually can cook. Pressure cooking seems way better for many cases.
But anyway, I think we're about to enter an age of abundant sustainable energy, and energy efficiency is going to be much less important than material and 'environmental' efficiency.
It will matter far more that the avocados sourced from Chile are grown sustainably in a way that matches the local environment, how they are packaged, etc, than how much transport energy is needed to bring them to market.
- xg15 2y agoSeems to me, the two will still be correlated however. E.g. if the entire world buys their bananas from one place, because the price is the cheapeast or whatever, then this will require a massive concentration of agriculture in that location impacts for the local environment - and those local impacts can have global effects, e.g. in case of large-scale deforestation. I don't have data, but it seems to me, local agriculture avoids those problems, simply because it introduces more variablility and spreads the environmental burden over a larger area.