Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web
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Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web
#2I just by default doubt any anti-nuclear thing that comes out of Germany.
We do not need Germanys CO2 emissions. That's the big problem here. And the amount of radioactivity spewed into the atmosphere by German coal plants is way bigger than cold war era weapon testing.
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#3I just by default doubt any anti-nuclear thing that comes out of Germany. We do not need Germanys CO2 emissions. That's the big problem here. And the amount of radioactivity spewed into the atmosphere by German coal plants is way bigger than cold war era weapon testing.
They are definitely not saying it comes from German NPP. Makes me wonder though if wild pigs have the flavor of truffles. (You better believe the taste of chicken eggs depends on what they eat or that the complex flavor of venison has to with the random stuff wild animals eat. Turns out truffles really love Cesium.)
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#4In case you wonder just what happens to all the dead pigs the hunters shoot each year (about 100k/a): the fat ends up as biodiesel, the carcasses are burnt to power cement plants and waste incinerators [1].
[1] https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/bayern/Augsburg-Entsorg...
Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web
#5I just by default doubt any anti-nuclear thing that comes out of Germany. We do not need Germanys CO2 emissions. That's the big problem here. And the amount of radioactivity spewed into the atmosphere by German coal plants is way bigger than cold war era weapon testing.
Nothing in "be careful eating wild boar" and "don't blow up nuclear bombs in the atmosphere" is going to affect Germany's CO2 emissions.
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#6I just by default doubt any anti-nuclear thing that comes out of Germany. We do not need Germanys CO2 emissions. That's the big problem here. And the amount of radioactivity spewed into the atmosphere by German coal plants is way bigger than cold war era weapon testing.
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Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web
#7I surely can't be the only one who hears "radioactive boar" and thinks "superhero origin story".
Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web
#8I just by default doubt any anti-nuclear thing that comes out of Germany. We do not need Germanys CO2 emissions. That's the big problem here. And the amount of radioactivity spewed into the atmosphere by German coal plants is way bigger than cold war era weapon testing.
The source for Germany's CO2 emissions is a pro-coal-miner stance, not an anti-nuclear position: Germany happily threw away a 120k workers strong photovoltaics industry while protecting a 40k workers strong coal mining industry.
The anti-nuclear position comes from radioactive boars and even more-so from the fuck up that is the Jülich experimental reactor, a "safe by design" system that by now took 40 years of maintenance while taking another 80 before it can be dismantled.
Politics and industry have demonstrated that they can't ensure safe nuclear operation in Germany. USSR (1986) and Japan (2011) just drove the point home that it's not a specific German failing.
(Case in point: the anti-nuclear movement in Germany started in the 1970s. Unless you believe in time travel, those big incidents at most fueled the flames)
Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web
#9In case you wonder just what happens to all the dead pigs the hunters shoot each year (about 100k/a): the fat ends up as biodiesel, the carcasses are burnt to power cement plants and waste incinerators [1]. [1] https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/bayern/Augsburg-Entsorg...
so instead of eating them we pump it into the atmosphere? :(
Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web
#10I just by default doubt any anti-nuclear thing that comes out of Germany. We do not need Germanys CO2 emissions. That's the big problem here. And the amount of radioactivity spewed into the atmosphere by German coal plants is way bigger than cold war era weapon testing.
maybe there is a way to sell the pigs to you instead of disposing them?
This would certainly reduce carbon emissions due to life stock farming