Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.
Duralf@lemmy.world 7 months agoAsphalt is definitely a carbon sink though since it’s a petroleum product!
Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.
Duralf@lemmy.world 7 months agoAsphalt is definitely a carbon sink though since it’s a petroleum product!
Aceticon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is if one does not count the heavy hydrocarbons taken from raw crude and used to make asphalt in the maths of carbon pulled out of the Earth originally when the oil is pumped out - in other words, if one blames the lighter stuff used in fuel for the actual oil extraction and then just goes with “well, now that we have this stuff out, might as well use the heavy stuff for asphalt”.
Otherwise it’s adds up to a carbon source because even though the extraction of the fraction of crude oil that ends up used for asphalt is offset by that stuff ending up back on the ground as asphalt, the actual processes between one and the other do emit CO2 and some light hydrocarbons.
Sure, nowhere as bad as fuel and gas, but still a net negative.