Next thing you know we'll have Bayer selling Apple a gigaton of "yield improvement" carbon credits at $1 a pop. But this is an interesting framing of the carbon impact of R&D that I hadn't really considered before.
As you know, biofuels have a very serious impact on indirect land use putting pressures to convert forests to agriculture. We could avoid the need for a whole lot of research by using the US land dedicated to biofuels for feeding people. Also “If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million.” Unfortunately, the best solutions are hiding behind political change.
Next thing you know we'll have Bayer selling Apple a gigaton of "yield improvement" carbon credits at $1 a pop. But this is an interesting framing of the carbon impact of R&D that I hadn't really considered before.
As you know, biofuels have a very serious impact on indirect land use putting pressures to convert forests to agriculture. We could avoid the need for a whole lot of research by using the US land dedicated to biofuels for feeding people. Also “If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million.” Unfortunately, the best solutions are hiding behind political change.