Melissa A Schilling

@Capitalists1776 @SamaHoole There are very few areas in the U.S. where non-irrigated pastures grow grass for more than a few months. As someone who is always looking for an idyllic pasture for my cows, I can tell you that it's not easy to find. Cows are fed hay and soybean meal in the U.S. for a reason.

@SamaHoole pastures are typically unsuitable for crops. If it weren't for cows it would be useless land. Heck through some techniques you can make the land more productive with those cattle.

"It takes 15,000 liters of water to produce 1kg of beef!" Sounds horrifying. Except here's what they don't tell you: Those 15,000 liters breaks down as: 94% "green water" (rainwater that falls on pasture) 4% "blue water" (actual irrigation) 2% "grey water" (recycled water) So 94% is just rain. Rain that was falling anyway. Rain the grass absorbs, the cow drinks, then pisses back into the soil within days. The 4% blue water? That's 600 liters. Compare to almonds: 12,000 liters of actual irrigation water per kilogram. Twenty times more than beef. Almonds require intensive irrigation in drought-stricken California, draining aquifers that took 10,000 years to fill and will never refill. The trick: They count rainfall for beef but not for plant crops. If we counted green water for almonds the same way, those numbers would be astronomical. Your grass-fed British beef uses rainfall on land that can't grow crops. Your almond milk drains prehistoric aquifers. One borrows from the rain cycle. One steals from the future. The statistics aren't lying. They're just designed to make you draw the wrong conclusion.

@Hamishkt @SamaHoole @IcoloSky In the U.S. 70-75% of beef is produced on factory farms. They don't graze in idyllic pastures; they are fed hay and grain on a tightly packed feedlot. There are very few areas of the U.S. where open pasture would have grass more than a few months (if any) of the year.

@SamaHoole @IcoloSky

@SamaHoole If only steer were just roaming around on green pastures living happy lives and drinking rain-watered grass. The vast majority of beef produced in the U.S. is produced in factory farms (concentrated feedlots).

@NRCgov When a terrorist flies a plane into one of these reactors, will Texas just be gone?

#NRCNews: We've accepted for review the first two parts of a combined license application from Fermi America LLC. nrc.gov/cdn/doc-collec…

📷 Exciting news: @Stellantis and #ZetaEnergy are collaborating to build lithium-sulfur #EV batteries. This technology aims to deliver lighter battery packs with the same energy, enabling greater range, improved handling, and faster charging by up to 50%. prn.to/3VpNNah

Please join us June 17th and 18th for an exciting online (free) conference on Decentralization in Organizations! Click the link below to see our speaker lineup and registration link! linkedin.com/posts/melissa-…

The first big batch of used EVs will hit the market in 2026. No one knows what’s going to happen fastcompany.com/91018102/the-f… #tesla #evs

Check out my latest article: Four things you ought to know about bees and honey. linkedin.com/pulse/four-thi… via @LinkedIn

Thanks to Energies Magazine for publishing this excerpt of Quirky! It is such an honor to share the stories of the breakthrough innovators profiled in the book (Curie, Kamen, Musk, Jobs, Franklin, Tesla, Edison and Einstein). energiesmagazine.com/article/quirky/

If only there was a way to just take CO2 from the atmosphere and transform it into useful things...Oh wait! There is now! Congrats to Dioxycle to their incredible technological progress and their series A raise! Dioxycle #cleantech #climatetech techcrunch.com/2023/07/26/dio…

I wonder how many webpages will have to be updated with the new twitter logo. 10 million? 100 million? More?

There are strong reasons to suspect that long-term use of semaglutide can increase the risk of Alzheimers. linkedin.com/pulse/before-y… via @LinkedIn #Alzheimers #diabetes #Ozempic #Wegovy #Rybelsus #semaglutide #weightloss

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@WildBrainStudio what happened to Superzuzaa? There was a whole second season that was shot that doesn’t seem to have been released. Will you release it? It would mean a lot to the kids who starred in it!

@HomeDepot taping the small bag of stones I ordered to a full-size wooden pallet that I now have to cut into pieces so that the trash truck will take it was obnoxious and wasteful. It makes we want to never order from you again.

@_B___S Why didn't someone give him a dog?

After this foal's mother died, a teddy bear helped him get to sleep

@profgalloway Which one is the First Lady?

So … DeSantis & Musk are running together?

Way to go Zeta!!

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