The largest solar grazing project in the U.S. will reduce mowing costs and emissions — and make for some happy sheep.

  • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They didn’t do that. They were talking about other aspects of the situation that make this preferable to people mowing the fields. You just assumed that, since they didn’t specifically discus methane emissions, they didn’t know about it, or pretended not to. This is weird.

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      2 months ago

      I wrote:

      it happens that people think grazing animals are 100% climate-neutral

      To which they responded:

      Assuming the sheep are only fed from the grass they eat on-site, how are they NOT carbon neutral?

      Then follows my lengthy explanation about methane. And then they write:

      I wondered if you were going to go the methane angle.

      So, they knew that climate-neutral ≠ carbon-neutral.
      They knew that “Assuming the sheep are only fed from the grass they eat on-site, how are they NOT carbon neutral?” is just the wrong question to ask.

      I cannot see how I should have not interpreted that as a technical question by someone who does not know about methane.
      I wouldn’t care, if they didn’t now also tell me off for giving a technical answer.