All you Freepers need to quit burning yak dung and find an alternative energy source before you ruin the planet!
Posted on 12/15/2014 10:35:29 AM PST by Zakeet
It gets pretty cold this time of year in Tibet. For centuries, the solution to this problem was a win-win: just burn that huge pile of yak dung that’s been accumulating all summer.
For millions of nomadic Tibetans, it’s a system that works. But that system comes at a hefty cost. Tibetan homes have some of the worst indoor air pollution in the world, and the soot the dung fires release is a big contributor to climate change.
Yak dung, when used as fuel, is arguably dirtier than coal but is definitely much cheaper. Particulate pollution from burning animal dung greatly increases the risk of lung cancer and other respiratory ailments, the occurrence of which can be slowed by switching to cleaner ways of heating homes.
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All you Freepers need to quit burning yak dung and find an alternative energy source before you ruin the planet!
When the left keeps producing yak dung out of their mouths at record quantities, how do you withstand that, eh?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
Tibet ,run by the Communist Country of China ? I thought Communism would stop Global Warming
Yak dung? Sounds like the name of a mad Mongolian scientist.
Oh, now I remember where I heard that name before. His cousins are Wi Tu Lo, and Hu Kiki Diki.
Sorry.
5.56mm
Can’t be any worse than the turf fueled fires the Irish used to have. In some traditional areas turf fires are still common. As to the yak dung- you make the best use of what you have. they have a shitload of, um well you know and not a lot of wood so who are we to tell them how to use their resources?
CC
But there is an easy solution. One never tried by the irrational left.
DO NOTHING!
The problem will solve itself when summer gets there.
Yak Dung: a Chinese chef?
I've never heard of him. What is he doing that's so bad?
ping
Ah c’mon, not this yak dung thing again.
Can’t they just get them onto bicycles, that should solve like everything. Tibetan bike lanes will save the planet.
Ommmmmmmmmmm.
Liberals are wackos.
I’m never heard of anything sillier in my entire life.
Poop is a part of the natural cycle, haven’t they heard?
Isn’t Yak Dung the name of the Chinese assistant to the secretary of the politburo or something?
What, the EPA doesn’t have jurisdiction over yak dung? Quick, Barack, sign another executive order making it so.
I have a 12th degree black belt in Yak Dung. HOOHAH!
Our heat pump went out Friday - finally got it repaired today. I was talking Saturday with an elderly relative about how nice it would be to have nothing more “mechanical” than opening a wood stove door & chucking in a log (I know you have to cut/split, etc, too - still not like sensor boards, etc.). We were reminiscing about the “good old days” with wood & coal stoves. I personally know three families that have, within the last couple of years, switched to wood stoves to heat their entire homes. Of course, the EPA is right in the thick of it, trying to outlaw wood stoves that don’t have their approval, but with electric prices going up (110% in the northeast as one example that I saw in a recent article), folks are going to return to the basics and (gasp!) start cutting trees, etc. The Enviro-Weenies are pushing everything too far, as is Oboloa with his infamous remark about electric rates necessarily going up. No yaks in my neighborhood, but I do know some folks with alpacas .... wonder if their dung would burn? It’s a convenient pellet size.
(sung to Milli Vanilli’s, “Blame It On The Rain.”)
Blame it on the dung that was fallin’, fallin’!
Blame it on the coal plants ‘cause they burn at night
If carbon, grease and goo,
Won’t let the heat on through
Blame it on the yak, yeah, yeah!
Well you got your first world problems and this here would be one of your third world problems.
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