U.S. says it will cut costs for clean energy projects on public lands

[DouglasR]

There is no free lunch.

The problem isn’t the disease or need for antibiotics, the problem is you’ve got too many hogs in one pen.

#Salatin/brendtd2024

 

[brocksw]

The problem isn’t the disease or need for antibiotics, the problem is you’ve got too many hogs in one pen.

#Salatin/brendtd2024

#occupymars

 

[DouglasR]

#occupymars

#jesusormars
#ouronlyoptions

 

[DouglasR]

“We were making great progress towards Mars, but then Jesus showed up and destroyed the labor force”
-Elon Musk

 

[BrentD]

So you love crypto then

Does not compute.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Does not compute.

Cryptocurrency’s Dirty Secret: Energy Consumption

To be a true game changer, crypto may need to come clean and go green.

news.climate.columbia.edu

 

[BrentD]

Cryptocurrency’s Dirty Secret: Energy Consumption

To be a true game changer, crypto may need to come clean and go green.

news.climate.columbia.edu

oh yeah, they are all over that in Iowa (cheap energy, corporate welfare, etc.). New centers for "mining" are poppinng up and chewing up ungodly amounts of e. Whatever. Not going to change the fate of the planet. It's bad. Way bad.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

OG development will still be there, regardless. Hundreds of thousands of wells will not disappear overnight because Nuke plants got built. I sure as hell hope the strategy to move away from fossil fuels is not forcing $10 per gallon gasoline on people either. Because we'll all be broke by the time new energy solutions spread their wings and become globally adopted by common people. Like many things, progress is typically slow and incremental.

I mean also if the government built nuclear reactors and replaced oil burning power plants that would reduce prices at the pump.

 

[VikingsGuy]

The problem isn’t the disease or need for antibiotics, the problem is you’ve got too many hogs in one pen.

#Salatin/brendtd2024

#ThanosSnap

 

[BrentD]

I mean also if the government built nuclear reactors and replaced oil burning power plants that would reduce prices at the pump.

Most (all?) oil burners have been converted to LNG, no? Doesn't appear to have done much to the cost of gas from what I can see. But perhaps that is disguised in some way.

 

[BackofBeyond]

I'm interested in mixing in some nitrogen fixing, bloat free sainfoin with the grass and see how good the beef gets. Bees like it too.

Benefits of sainfoin | Soil Association

www.soilassociation.org

If you haven’t read Salad Bar Beef by Joel Salatin you should seek it out.

He’s a bit of a hippie dippy nut job, but still good stuff back by practice not theory.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Most (all?) oil burners have been converted to LNG, no? Doesn't appear to have done much to the cost of gas from what I can see. But perhaps that is disguised in some way.

Most… though still quite a primary source is a couple of markets.

New England’s ‘Clean Energy Transition’ Seems Heavy On Fuel Oil

On Sunday, January 16, the New England states along he northeastern U.S. corridor received 24% of their peak power generation not from renewables, not from natural gas, not from coal or nuclear, but from fuel oil.

www.forbes.com

I think it’s kinda to your point about ever increasing energy use… what’s crazy is that even though the US energy mix has changed in the last 30 years a ton… way more renewables, the amount of fossil fuels we use has only increased, there has been absolutely no “replacement”.

 

[Nick87]

Not a rancher, but yes. We mob graze our ladies. We don't necessarily do it for the carbon sequestration benefit, that's a side piece. We do it because it had massive effects on our pasture health, and our weaning weights climbed because of it.

Good friend of mines dad mob grazes. The pasture benefits are pretty impressive.

 

[Wildabeest]

The problem isn’t the disease or need for antibiotics, the problem is you’ve got too many hogs in one pen.

#Salatin/brendtd2024

Sex, the root of all evil…

 

[SAJ-99]

Quickest way to make our country energy insecure.....if we aren't already there yet. F... no

If the government determines the price of they can charge for the product, how does that fit into your idealistic view of the world?

 

[BigHornRam]

If you haven’t read Salad Bar Beef by Joel Salatin you should seek it out.

He’s a bit of a hippie dippy nut job, but still good stuff back by practice not theory.

I've heard of him. I've been to a presentation by this guy. He has a good handle on farm economics.

 

[SAJ-99]

What about removing shareholders from the equation? Force all Nuke plants to be private companies who are not on the hook for keeping your 401k on the up and up. I could be wrong, but I think this could remove some of the profit motive problems we see

Private companies try to make a profit too. They just don’t have to do the reporting to make the SEC happy. There is still someone behind them providing capital and that capital needs to make a return. This isn’t the case with a lot of the money the government spends, which means a both good and bad.

 

[BigHornRam]

There’s only one way we’re gonna save this planet...
The most deadly reaction known to mankind.

The planet is fine.....

 

[DouglasR]

The planet is fine.....

Holy cow he nailed it!

 

[SAJ-99]

I think it’s kinda to your point about ever increasing energy use… what’s crazy is that even though the US energy mix has changed in the last 30 years a ton… way more renewables, the amount of fossil fuels we use has only increased, there has been absolutely no “replacement”.

The reality is there is no easy answer. Each one is like the drugs that advertise on the evening news where side effects include suicide, stroke, heart attack and death. The only solution right now is “all of the above” and pray for some smart people who went to college and decided to geek out on this stuff instead of going for a big paycheck to start tweaking some of them to make them palatable for the long term.