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(3/x) Biodigesters are a form of #greenwashing. At best, they are a costly use of #climate funding: #Biodigesters cost $1,130 per #cow per year but generate just $128 worth of gas. At worst, they expand a brutal factory farm system by incentivizing dairy farms to grow: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/392881/dairy-biogas-manure-digester
Vox · Big Oil and Big Ag are teaming up to turn cow poop into energy — and profits. The math doesn’t add up.
(4/x) Expanding #dairy herd sizes is at odds with the consensus among #climate scientists who warn that rich countries must drastically reduce #livestock populations (particularly #cattle) to meet #globalwarming targets. And cow #manure on its own doesn't contain methane: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/392881/dairy-biogas-manure-digester
Vox · Big Oil and Big Ag are teaming up to turn cow poop into energy — and profits. The math doesn’t add up.