OT: The world is saved by Jerry Brown...

I guess they'll have to eat tofu-cow now. Or maybe some sort of butt-mounted catalytic converter. Visualize that!

I understand they're going to pipe it to Berkeley and call it the "new high" >:-} ...Jim Thompson

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Guess that would be a Cattle-lytic converter... :-)

On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:11:41 -0700 Bill Martin wrote in Message id: :

:) Awww... How did I miss that one? [grumble]

Yes but that's because your internet is delivered over a piece of wet string connected to a assemblage of tin cans FFS.

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Most of the methane is emitted from their mouths, not from their butts.

And while methane is a significant pollutant and greenhouse gas (it's something like 30 times as bad as CO2 by weight), cows are not the biggest source of methane, and methane is not the biggest environmental problem with cows.

The biggest methane emitters are termites, along with natural rotting vegetation. Another source that should worry people are melting permafrost.

Cows are a massive environmental problem - but their methane emission pales in comparison to burning down rainforests to farm them (or to grow soya for their feed), as well as the environmental costs for everything involved - growing food for cows means transport, fertilizer, land use, etc.

It is certainly possible to capture /some/ of the methane generated by cows (or more precisely, from their fermenting manure) - it is practical and cost-effective in many countries, because the methane is a useful gas and can be burned for heat or power.

As is often the case, this article looks like a politician that is trying to get public appeal by being "green". Most politicians, and most of the public, completely fail to look at the big picture when considering the environment - it's easy to grab headlines and votes by suggesting a tax on cow farts, but far harder to suggest people eat meal-worms instead of beef.

Are you still running Windows 98 ?>:-} ...Jim Thompson

I thought I remember him "upgrading" to Win2K

Baer has more link trouble than anyone here. You'd think he would learn by now. ...Jim Thompson