Yes, obviously AI is emitting way too much. It shouldn’t even be producing 0.2% of global emissions, let alone 2%. My main grievance is that no one ever talks about improving industrial and agricultural processes even though they produce around 29% of emissions and 20% of emissions respectively.

  • saturn57@lemmy.worldOP
    151·
    6 个月前

    While switching to plant based food is an obvious course of action which would have drastic benefits, several other methods exist by which agricultural emissions. These include:

    • Livestock diet changes to reduce methane production
    • More accurate fertilizer application to reduce nitrous oxide production
    • Draining rice paddies to reduce production of methane by anaerobic microbes
    • No till farming to allow more carbon to be stored in the soil
    • Farm equipment electrification
    • Crops bred for higher yield or lower resource usage
    • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 个月前

      Farm equipment electrification

      Now I’m picturing tractors with the power arms that you see on Vancouver buses. Putting up wires over the fields in the right pattern would be a huge project, though. Oof.

      • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 个月前

        still very likely a worthwhile investment. It would also bring cost reductions with a bunch of automations such scaffolding could bring.

        • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 个月前

          Somehow I doubt it. I’d actually expect the capital costs of designing and install the wires to make it unfeasible. Maybe if you had grants for the construction aspect…hmm…

          A more likely path seems like electric tractors, maybe with swappable batteries. Really, though, I think I’d need to hear from actual farmers rather than trying to brainstorm in their behalf.