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Microsoft uses human poop to scrub 4.9 million tons of carbon from AI footprint
Interesting Engineering ^ | July 18, 2025 | Neetika Walter

Posted on 07/21/2025 7:58:44 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

I truly don’t understand how anyone with half a brain thinks this is workable or possibly le. Carbon is one of the most abundant elements on earth. There’s no way doing this helps anything.


41 posted on 07/21/2025 9:07:48 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Red Badger

“a surprisingly lucrative climate solution”

Biggest scam in human history since islam.


42 posted on 07/21/2025 9:11:43 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: DouglasKC

It’s CVS: Corporate Virtue Signaling.........................


43 posted on 07/21/2025 9:11:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

that’s freaking interesting.

Too bad its not economic to ship all of america’s poop to american deserts where it would make the land productive.


44 posted on 07/21/2025 9:15:17 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: DouglasKC; Red Badger

Old saying “You don’t sh*t where you eat” applies to water you eventually drink, too. Cultists fleecing the ignorant for profit at everyone’s expense.

Someone pointed out that a society has reached a peak when it’s people create new problems where none existed before. This is a perfect example.


45 posted on 07/21/2025 9:23:05 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (We can be heroes... just for one day. Whatcha' say?)
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To: Red Badger

Lunacy...

It never ceases to amaze what government can cause. Nobody would ever dream of doing this as a business without government offering tax incentives.


46 posted on 07/21/2025 9:24:49 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Red Badger

POOP-QUAKES!


47 posted on 07/21/2025 9:28:36 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: ckilmer

Yeah, it’s been a win. It’s taken 15 years, but I have been paid a very minor fee (basically the same as a rental grazing fee) and turned about a section and a half (so ~820 acres) from marginal ranch land worth a couple grand an acre to $25-35k acre really good farmland that now is exceedingly profitable.

Basically the opportunity cost was not running a handful of cows on it.

And this is taking poop from a very small city.

My kids will repeat the process when I run out of land, starting with the oldest first.

Trying to figure out an economic way to take salt water from oil production to do the same thing. The salt can be removed easily but benzene (causes cancer and can get into certain crops) and distillates that can persist can’t be removed economically. Working with a guy at NMSU who swears certain bacteria can eat the stuff.


48 posted on 07/21/2025 9:29:21 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Red Badger

That must be why they needed all those employees from India...


49 posted on 07/21/2025 9:35:52 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Red Badger

Ahh, instead of addressing the problem (i.e., the lie that CO2 is bad and that it affects climate) let’s waste more tax$$ and get involved in vanity projects like this. Why nnot, it is not their/my $$?


50 posted on 07/21/2025 9:35:53 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: Tucker39
A precisely WHAT prevents all that tonnage from contaminating the aquifers from which we get our drinking water?

That may be the point. Poison the aquifers so everyone must purchase HIS water. He says water is a privilege, not a right
51 posted on 07/21/2025 10:00:27 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Red Badger

What could go wrong.

Treated waste solids can be used as fertilizer.

And we need to be done saying that carbon is bad.


52 posted on 07/21/2025 10:28:54 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Red Badger

“carbon removal” Translation: a start-up taking a fool for all his money. Carbon is in every cell from unicellular organisms to humans, you cannot have plant or animal life without it.


53 posted on 07/21/2025 10:32:21 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: Red Badger

I have heard Gates was cheap but this is ridiculous.


54 posted on 07/21/2025 11:32:15 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Red Badger

LOL . . . and corn is mostly carbon once the water is removed.


55 posted on 07/21/2025 12:14:00 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Red Badger

Somebody will be in Deep $h!t.


56 posted on 07/21/2025 1:10:53 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: Red Badger

Microsoft uses human poop to scrub 4.9 million tons of carbon from AI footprint.

Mexico’s food growers hit hardest.


57 posted on 07/21/2025 1:58:29 PM PDT by Vaduz
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