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kazinatoryesterday at 10:36 PM2 repliesview on HN

But at least that alfalfa gobbles up CO2 from the air.


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malfistyesterday at 10:59 PM

Until people/animals eat it, or it decomposes. Not saying this like we should ignore the co2 impact from data centers, but biomass is a pretty poor co2 absorber unless its cyano and falls to the ocean floor before decomposing

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thelastgallonyesterday at 11:02 PM

Goes into cow, comes out as methane. cow dies/meat --> co2. All the fossil fuel transportation for alfalfa to cow to brisket --> co2. Lot more co2 generated than absorbed.