World’s First Multi-Million Dollar Carbon-Capture Plant Does Work Of Just $17,640 Worth Of Trees

National Economics Editorial ^ | June 2, 2017 | Editorial Staff

[Thalean]

"On May 31 the world’s first commercial carbon dioxide capture-plant was opened in Hinwil, Switzerland.

It’s designed and operated by a Swiss company called Climeworks, and uses a modular design that can be scaled up over time.

The company says that the plant will remove 900 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year by passing it through a special filter that isolates carbon dioxide molecules...

In fact, it only takes an average of 98 trees to remove 1 ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere per year.

That means that this plant is worth only 88,200 trees per year (never mind the fabrication costs for all the parts, which probably have an enormous carbon footprint).

Although we can’t compare the costs because Climeworks doesn’t state the cost of their plant on their website—probably because it’s egregiously high, we do know the cost of planting trees.

You can sponsor charities to plant trees for you at a grand total of 20 cents per tree.

That means that only $17,640 worth of trees could do the work of the multi-million dollar Hinwil carbon-capture plant."

[bobcat62]

But... if they release the gas to grow tomatoes, haven’t they released this awful poison back into the atmosphere? /s

[wjcsux]

When the truth is told about the “climate change” scam, sites like this will be expensive, colossal monuments to stupidity.

[Morpheus2009]

Reminds me of the Lomax movie, where eventually people got charged for bottled air.

[Zeneta]

Dude, the priorities of the self and myself aren’t important right now.

It’s the politics of dancing

the politics of feeling good.

[PIF]

Yep. An Oxygen Sequestering Facility - oxygen is a flammable gas and needs to be lowered a lot. Just think without oxygen there would be no forest fires.

I will begin a go-fund-me page to reinstate Earth’s one true atmosphere, and raise the frozen methane from the ocean floor.

[stig]

As this process continues, the total amount of life that the earth can support decreases. By the time these global warmists notice, the biosphere will be gravely damaged.

That is what they want. They have wrapped all the population control arguments into this global warming theory. Humans are the problem and if they can reduce the surplus population through their global warming plans they will have created a leftist utopia (in their minds). Soon the Eugenics crowd will resurface because we can't just let humans breed indiscriminately in an ecosystem designed to support less people. We will be told who can reproduce and when.

[exDemMom]

The problem with that thinking is that if the capacity of the earth to support life is reduced by, for example, half, it is not merely humans who are affected. It is every living organism. Many will go extinct. And if humans are “overpopulated” now, we would actually be even more “overpopulated” in that scenario, because there would be even less ecosystem to support us. (Like if you have 20 people living in a 10 bedroom house, and move them to a 2 bedroom house, there would suddenly be a deficit of living space.)

There is, right now, a movie being advertised that portrays a future in which only the smart children are allowed to survive. All school children take a standardized test, and those who do not score high enough are exterminated. I cannot imagine why such a movie was made—either someone dreams of such a future, or someone thinks that societal trends are going in that direction and wants to warn us. I keep seeing the ads for this movie on youtube. I don’t know the name, because I skip past it as soon as youtube allows.

[stig]

The problem with that thinking...
And if humans are “overpopulated” now, we would actually be even more “overpopulated” in that scenario, because there would be even less ecosystem to support us. (Like if you have 20 people living in a 10 bedroom house, and move them to a 2 bedroom house, there would suddenly be a deficit of living space.)

I agree with you but the people that think this way would love nothing more than to round us all up into ghettos so we'll be out of the way. If we're lucky enough to have a job they will provide substandard, overcrowded public transportation to get there. If we are really lucky they will allow us to use an electric self-driving car to have a vacation at an overcrowded substandard resort.

They will tell us it's our own fault for killing the planet to boot!