• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Holy shit, one kilo of butter from 60kg of coal?!

    That’s some pretty spenny butter for “agreeable taste”

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      4 months ago

      You might be surprised what the material and energetic footprint of dairy is.

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      4 months ago

      “The Germans preferred Ersatz.”

      (Or at least that’s how I remember that quote from Catch-22 when I read it 25 years ago…)

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      4 months ago

      i wonder how much emissions turning coal to butter creates. Maybe we should turn world’s coal to butter so planetkillhappy bastards cant burn it.

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        4 months ago

        Given it seems to generate 59kg of waste product, I don’t think it is going to be that great for the environment

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            4 months ago

            It would probably be some synthetic American government cheese-like product.

            Which I’m sure if the Germans had come up with it and not the Americans would also be described as being nutritious

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          That “waste product” isn’t just thrown away.

          They’re still hydrocarbons. Which are used in other places or burned for fuel… Which isn’t actually all that great for the environment…

          Actually, tossing the waste product in a pit might be better, environmentally speaking.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      You don’t have to waste the other hydrocarbons when you crack something. You just use em for something else or burn them for power. Though the flare towers in refineries prove me wrong to a degree.