Posted on 07/13/2024 5:41:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Have the greenies ever heard of these crazy things called trees?
First, the story, from a report out at The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:
In May this year, on the flat plains of an Icelandic geothermal reserve, a gigantic vacuum cleaner designed to suck planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the sky was switched on.
The machine, called Mammoth, would not be entirely out of place on a Mad Max set. It will soon start extracting up to 36,000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere a year to be fossilised, locking it safely and permanently underground.
And, here’s some context, from one of my favorites, the Jo Nova blog:
In a world where humans make 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually the project will be able to remove 36,000 tons of CO2 each year, which is approximately one millionth of human annual emissions.
Cost estimates are said to be ‘closer to $1,000 a ton’ to remove the CO2. Effectively, we’re spending 36 million dollars US to convert one millionth of human annual emissions of a fertilizing gas into limestone rock we don’t need.
Call me crazy, but it seems like if the goal is creating superior air quality, and doing it as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, which should be the goal for any government or “private” (air quotes because this is crony capitalism) business, then the solution is trees… right?
I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again—this is not to suggest that high carbon levels in the atmosphere makes for dirty air as it’s a requirement for every living thing on the planet, and the lower the carbon levels means the less plant growth we have, from crops to grasslands, and from biodiverse jungles to kelp forests.
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If these leftists were not going after carbon dioxide, what other damage would they be doing?
Plant trees. Especially fruit trees.
I like fruit trees.
What happens to all the plants?
Asking for a friend.
Reminds me of something my mechanic uses ... The wallet vac
How does this run 🤔 electricity! How does this separate CO2 from air? Can anyone say Rubie Goldberg design? Sure you can…..
That would have to be a very big vacuum to vacuum carbon from a carbon based planet but it’s just another Green Scam
“...with a hefty price tag.”
What a surprise. /s
“Have the greenies ever heard of these crazy things called trees?”
Yes, now they want to cut them down and bury them, that’s their latest.
So this “thing” is designed to SUCK? Sounds like it isn’t even going to be good at that.
Well, it did SUCK a bunch of $$$$$.
Oh lordy we’re saved.
The target is any kind of independence. Your truck, the one that lets you be an independent contractor emits too much carbon. You must invest $100,000 in a new one that is terribly fragile and expensive to maintain. You’re out of business. Your air conditioner is too power hungry and contributes to global warming, you must spend $12,000 on a new one. You can no longer afford those cheap rental units you owned.
Everything, everything, is sacrificed in the name of saving Gaia. Even though if you did it all, you America couldn’t cover just a week’s worth of carbon spewed out by China.
They should pelletize the Carbon Dioxide, and using Spacex’s largest Starships, fly the pellets to Mars, and distribute them to the Mars atmosphere, where it could help warm up the planet AND provide for plants to make oxygen.
We could make Mars a “shirt-sleeve” atmosphere in only few decades of this carbon export.
You’d think the air in Iceland would be pretty good.
Why didn’t they put it in LA?
Why didn't they name it Kamala?
Forgot to ask. “to be fossilised, locking it safely and permanently underground.”
What does fossilised mean? Is the underground storage facility earthquake proof? I mean what happens if a small tremor cracks open the storage vault and all that CO2 escapes in a short time?
I heard that Willie Brown once commented that Kamala wasn’t even good for that.
It’s another carbon credit scam so they can say look we cutting back on carbon , LOL
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