Feeding cows seaweed could slash global greenhouse gas emissions

[Locke]

Originally Posted by octothorp

Damn, my plan of giving sea-cows weed was so close. Looks like my patent of the dudong-bong was all for naught.

[Scrambler]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Don't tell my wife, or she will have me eating seaweed too. Nasty.

What you talking about? Seaweed is delicious, particularly with rice. Try some onigiri some day.

[nik-]

I prefer my seaweed fried with wasabi flavouring on it

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Scrambler

What you talking about? Seaweed is delicious, particularly with rice. Try some onigiri some day.

Tried it in many forms, just don't like the taste. But I don't like seafood either, so maybe that has something to do with it. Basically anything form the sea kicks in the ol' gag reflex. I put it down to some latent gene saving me from being poisoned by dolphins and their plot to take over the land by poisoning our food supply.

[Ashartus]

Did they account for the emissions of transporting all that seaweed inland?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

Did they account for the emissions of transporting all that seaweed inland?

What the hell is your problem man? You never account for downstream effects! It just ruins the whole narrative.

Why you gotta be like that man? Why?

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

Did they account for the emissions of transporting all that seaweed inland?

Uh. The cows just walk to the sea. Duh.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

Did they account for the emissions of transporting all that seaweed inland?

You could do this with a little math yourself to see if it's a real concern instead of what appears to be trying to discount the accopmplishment. Per Google a cow eats about 2% of its body weight. A cow weighs between 1000- 1800 lbs and emits 70kg to 120kg of methan each year. Methane is 20 times more effective as a greenhouse gas so call in 2000 kg C02 equivalent each year. Are cow will eat 20-36 lbs per day so let's call it 12kg * 365 which is roughly 4400kg/year

So at 2% of their diet that's about 88kg of seaweed or about 200lbs

A truck emits 100g /km tonne of CO2 so a 1000km drive to Vancouver presuming we can ship something back would be 10kg of CO2

So 2000kg of CO2 saved for 10kg of transport. Presuming the co2 emitted seaweed farming vs hay farming is equal.