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NooneAtAll3 4 hours ago

efficient in money, nothing is said about other metrics

it's quite possible to have more product made, thus more pollution (or less materials consumed, thus less)

but concentration definitely will rise

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khimaros 4 hours ago | parent [-]

sometime in the energy sector once told me "the solution to pollution is dilution"

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wat10000 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Which is nonsense. There's plenty of pollution that's been diluted as much as it possibly can be and is still problematic. CO2 is an obvious example. Or consider leaded gasoline or mercury. You have to be careful not to eat too much fish or you'll have trouble with the mercury in it. That's been diluted by the entire ocean and that didn't solve it.

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deepsun 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They meant "to not get caught, we just dilute".

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lazide 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

uh, that’s nonsense.

co2 is problematic because of concentration - the sheer volume.

leaded gas and mercury are a problem because of bio-concentration.

dilution still helps!

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forestrywat 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Of course it helps, but where are you going to dilute more co2 these days?

	▲	lazide 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		that is exactly the issue. still worse 6” from the tailpipe.

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wat10000 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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