@cstefan206@loganb@TJH314 Again, this is common sense. My problem is, when the subject is actually "the visible homeless", using math that adds in the "invisible" (perhaps as much as 80%) it's creating and allowing dishonest narratives.
@cstefan206@loganb@TJH314 Common sense would tend to agree. Perhaps it's time all stakeholders separate "visible" and "invisible" homeless, instead of conflating them.
The cheapest, most effective wildfire crew in California has four legs and eats the problem.
Clearing flammable brush off a steep slope by hand is brutal, slow, expensive work. A herd of goats is none of those things.
Hand clearance:
- Around 28,000 dollars an acre
- People with tools on dangerous slopes
- Cuttings that then have to be hauled away
A herd of goats:
- Roughly 500 to 1,000 dollars an acre
- Climbs slopes no crew wants to touch
- Eats the brush to a firebreak and fertilises the ground on the way through
- Reaches branches several feet up
- Visibly thrilled to be at work
Calling the goat a quaint throwback has it backwards. On this job the goat is the superior technology by a factor of about fifty, and it runs on the very scrub everyone else is paying to remove.
@GeeScottSr@TheTruth8240 Was this comment meant for a different video? That conversation is not much different from the average conversation you have with Brock and Salk.
@tylerhnorris Advanced BTM tech (Bloom SOFC + Hyliion KARNO) delivers 50-60%+ efficiency, lower emissions than many grid options, and fast reliable power without inefficient lock-in.
@howellsacto@MikeGrunwald The shipping is reasonable because those ships bringing us their cheap junk would have been going back with empty containers otherwise.