Re:Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines
by bumby on Friday February 04, 2022 @05:20PM
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Yes, that's precisely the point. Save it for the items that really bring value to our lives. The reason we're so dependent on technology to help is because we dug a hole by doing the opposite.
And I'm not equivocating that it's easy. Your heat pump analogy is the perfect example where life-cycle effects should come into play. I think it would be very interesting to see a study of something like comparing a new EV with the impact of maintaining an older ICE car. I suspect a lot of EV purchases are about status veiled in sustainability.
I want energy to be spent on big impact things like healthcare and food and sanitation. But considering ~60-70% of the economy is based on consumerism there's a lot of room to improve
Sure, so that works for a fork. And yeah, we can probably do it for all of the forks, so that's scalable.
How about rice? Laundry liquid? Humour me - surely you can think of things we use all of the time that are not possible to make net zero at present?
I mean, I can't even get off the gas in my boiler without putting in a heat pump that uses carbon to produce and maintain and repair. Even that one isn't fixed!