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Re:Primary energy vs final energy: why replacing fossil fuel... by xenocyon on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:53PM (#25128789)
> An insanely large portion of the CO2 is simply us and our livestock breathing.

That is a remarkable claim - do you have a citation?

Regarding heavy metal pollutants etc - I agree that those are a concern, but that is more or less orthogonal to the climate crisis.

Re:Primary energy vs final energy: why replacing fossil fuel... by knuthsat on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:18PM (#25129197)
This claim is not true. I mean, it's so easy to go and read withouthotair.com and see how this stuff can be calculated on the back of an envelope.

Then you can try a little bit harder and do 2nd, 3rd and other order effects and get a bit more precise estimates.

To say that a 2 ton car moving represents a tiny part of CO2 emissions and that breathing is killing the planet is ridiculous.

Re:Primary energy vs final energy: why replacing fossil fuel... by zzzeek on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:14PM (#25129138)
perhaps they are confusing CO2 for methane emitted by large fields of livestock (at the cost of their consumption of vegetation no longer available to help capture CO2) which is a non-trivial portion of greenhouse gas emission.