roastpotatothief

@roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics keeps getting me booted from Leftists communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  In no chemist. I don't know if it can or not, even theoretically. Would need to do some research.

  There's a better way. The ship can filter the waste water for nutrients before releasing it into the sea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics keeps getting me booted from Leftists communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Meats can be farmed in many ways. But in the best way (and it's a fairly common way) they are raised on useless land, practically wild, consuming grass and water that is also abundant. Think of mountainsides or floodplains in country with a lot of rain.

  It had no negative environmental impact, and a very small positive one. Not compare with three impact of any large scale chemical or industrial process. It is necessarily vast. Mining and transporting exotic materials, manpower or specialised robots, etc. All these have huge ecological footprint.

  Without even knowing the details (because the industry doesn't exist yet) it will certainly be an ecological disaster, compared against the best possible form of animal farming.

  But that firm if animal farming needs to become the norm soon anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics keeps getting me booted from Leftists communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  It's phosphorous. I dug up the old article. It's well worth reading. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/02/phosphorus-pollution-fertilizer/617937/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics keeps getting me booted from Leftists communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  That all makes sense.

  But in practice people always describe the flavour as being like tortilla too.

  And we still need to figure out the environmental impact. We don't know what it is, but it will certainly be far worse than meat.

  Why the same form and thickness of tortilla? Is that a technical constraint?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics keeps getting me booted from Leftists communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess so. Thanks.

  Just one thing. Fertiliser is a scarce non renewable resource. Not many realise that. I can find you a good explanation if you're interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics keeps getting me booted from Leftists communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  About that. Fish or meat based protein. Does it taste good? Will people eat it? Or will livestock eat it, is that the purpose? Of not, why is it better than existing sources of protein?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics keeps getting me booted from Leftists communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a great thing to start thinking about. We are running out of food. This kind of new industry and more like it will be needed very soon. If it becomes cheap fast, wild fish might not even go extinct.

  It will also lead to monoculture. Only one fish species will be farmed at large scale. And probably one business will control the entire industry, so they will have huge power over the good supply.

  And the extra nutrients, they are fertiliser, at a time when the world is running out of fertiliser. They could be growing fish food with it, in tanks exposed to sunlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics keeps getting me booted from Leftists communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  guoxin-1

  great idea. what do they feed the fish? where did the ship come from? got more info?