A thread to log poorly thought out game changing ideas for climate change.
Idea 1. From what I know of Pigs they’ll basically eat anything at all. So instead of the compost bin going to the dump or where ever the fuck it goes, we send it to massive government owned pig farms and we feed the pigs on our food waste.
The pigs will be reared in a state of the art multistory piggery (to reduce space required), where their shit will be processed for fuel and fertilizer etc.
The pigs will be eaten then as per normal.
Using our waste to generate our food, using their waste to generate our energy and food.
Idea 2. All our grass clippings are collected in their own bin, which we’ll call the grass bin for simplicity. Nothing else goes in only grass. This is then taken to a place with absolutely massive silage pits and made into silage, it is then sold back to farmers cheaply so hopefully they won’t have to put as much land under grass etc. increase their profits, reduce our costs. It seems mental to me that in a country covered in grass we actually ran out of it a few years ago.
Idea 2b. Farmers slurry tanks are emptied regularly and brought to a massive processing plant, same as a fella would collect milk off them now. Here the methane generated is used to make electricity and the farmers can come and collect the same amount of liquid as they’ve contributed whenever they need it. Also greatly reduces the danger of slurry pits on farms. Win win win
Idea 3. One massive sewage treatment plant in Dublin, where everything is properly treated and the shit is used to generate power. This is actually already a thing. We just need to do it here and on a massive scale.
The tech is already there for all of the above, they just aren’t done at scale at the moment. I’ve no idea of the practicalities of any of it though.
Be no harm to give some of it a try in say the plants bord na mona are closing down. Them lads in the midlands would have no issue being up to their necks in shit
You basically want to drive lorries of shit and slurry up and down and over and back around the country to assist with climate change? What could go wrong!
If waterworld taught us anything it’s that we should all start hoarding soil and buying yachts and catamarans. The Cuala lads are miles ahead of us on this.
If you were serious about climate change you would grow your own garbanzo beans and made your own hummus, instead of buying produce shipped from the Middle East.
It’s been tried but unfortunately led to mad cow disease and swine flu. You can no longer feed left over human food to animals. I remember when I was in UL a local pig farmer collected the left overs from the canteen every day. It seemed to work well, but not a runner now I’m afraid.