Posted on 01/17/2020 9:42:05 AM PST by Enlightened1
My first reaction was that this was satire. Guess not.
LOL, yeah right:-)
These environmental warriors are likely to throw the earth into a permanent ice age. With no CO2 at all, all life ends and the oceans freeze.
Everyone is missing the most important, most obvious impact of Microsoft’s plan. All life on Earth is carbon based! So apparently Bill has finally managed to build a time machine and is going to eliminate all Microsoft employees, past, present and future.
In Squamish, British Columbia, there's a company that wants to stop climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
It's called Carbon Engineering, and it uses a combination of giant fans and complex chemical processes to remove carbon dioxide from the air in a procedure known as Direct Air Capture.
Direct Air Capture isn't new, but Carbon Engineering says its technology has advanced enough for it to finally make financial sense.
The company is backed by Bill Gates -- but also by the oil giants Chevron, BHP, and Occidental. These partnerships will bring Carbon Engineering's tech to market by using the captured carbon to make synthetic fuels and and help extract more oil from the ground.
Will Carbon Engineering's technology decrease the amount of CO2 in the air, or is it going to prolong our dependence on fossil fuels?
Bill Gates-Backed Carbon Capture Plant Does The Work Of 40 Million Trees | CNBC | YouTube | Published on June 22, 2019
What are they going to do, make employees stop exhaling? Ban exhaling.
Somehow I think this “carbon negativity” will be achieved only on paper, through indulgences purchased from Pope Algore I.
Have you ever seen that movie “The road”? It’s about this father and son who try to survive in a world where all the plant life has died off and with it all the animals and as a result the few people who are still around resort to cannibalism. It’s from a novel written by Cormac McCarthy. I tell liberals all the time to watch that movie because if the CO2 percentage in the atmosphere ever dropped below 0.02%, that’s exactly what they could expect. But it will never happen, at not by our hand, because we can no more affect 5,000 quadrillion metric tons of atmosphere to any substantial degree than we can piss in the ocean and turn it yellow.
This is all nonsense.
There is no such thing as “carbon neutral” or “carbon negative”.
There is no way to remove old carbon released 30 years ago.
This is all anti-science nonsense.
If Microsoft stops hiring H1-B & OPT candidates they would eliminate the carbon emissions from flights to and from India.
For Microsoft, that would eliminate a lot of carbon.
All we will need is a few really big volcanic eruptions to offset all they will ever do to remove CO2 and push the planet over into a little ice age where everyone will be trying to cause global warming.
I guess all of those corporate jets will be sold?
Uh huh.
Anything they might manufacture is done so by 3rd parties in Asia, where owners will sign any carbon certificate they want.
> CO2 is necessary for life. Extracting it from the atmosphere could result in catastrophe. <
Microsofts move is doubly stupid. As you noted - no matter what Greta Thunberg might say - removing CO2 from the atmosphere is not a wise thing. Plus, think of all the good Microsoft could have done with that one billion dollars! Hospitals could have been built, medical research could have been funded, etc.
But I guess being politically correct trumps all.
Who sold them this plan?
He/she is laughing all the way to the bank!
Blah blah hor*esh*t blah...way to go bill fates!
Big damn deal...sh*T!
Yea...and look what china does...nothin’
Now spend a little more time on WIN 10 - it still SUCKS!
Make it so no construction for residential purposes can be more than 4,000 sq feet. And it is not grand fathered in.
With the exception of the few tons of carbon that we shot into space, all the carbon that was on earth is and will be, still on earth ... for eterenity. Get over it.
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