Posted on 09/19/2017 8:03:50 AM PDT by rktman
Yale University announced it is beginning penalize campus buildings and departments that emit too much carbon dioxide.
Yale said it is the first university to implement such a carbon fee. The fee will be $40 per ton of carbon.
If a building manages to reduce its carbon footprint at a rate that is greater than what the university achieves, then that building is rewarded with money from the carbon fund. If a building fails to reduce its carbon footprint, it must contribute to the carbon fund. Presumably, the money would be added or taken away from the departments that work in those buildings. More than 250 buildings will be affected, the university said.
It came to the decision after three years “of study, discussion and experimentation.”
Although the carbon tax took effect on July 1, those “administrative units” subject to the charge will get their first bills at the end of September.
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Speaking of electrical receptacles...
The sheer number of student-owned rechargeable gadgets...cellphones, laptops, wireless speakers, vibrators...will boost a dorm’s carbon footprint.
Make’em leave all of their “toys” at home.
Yale=Bushes=Yale
What a great way to improve your product, education. (Sarc)
BTW, has anyone ever seen the math that goes into figuring out how many tons of carbon a facility “emits”? It’s an accounting joke, figuratively and literally. An “all electric” building wouldn’t “emit carbon” unless you count the flatulents and exhalations of the humans inside. But wait, they count carbon based on energy usage and then transpose a figure of what carbon would have been produced to generate that emission. BUT, if you can put a solar panel on the building and deduct the amount of energy that the renewable energy source would provide if all days were sunny and at perfect efficiency, you get to lower the carbon emission number by an amount. Now, where are you getting power (nuclear, hydro, coal, natural gas), what type of plant? Doesn’t matter, how the power is generated for the calculation. Are you heating water and air with natural gas, propane, wood?
It’s all fuzzy math and assumptions.
Money laundering at its finest.
Sir, HOW DARE YOU! THIS is YALE!
Carbon is generally black when visible. Wouldn’t reducing things black be aggressively racis’ ?
Hey! Vibrators can run on batteries. That power shouldn’t count against the dorm.
Wireless = totally knot
All those wireless things cause wires to spaghetti all over the place
Then there is the constant reminder of how poorly batteries perform compared to the advancements in electronics.
Texas should help these azzclowns and shut off the energy pipelines to the NE this winter.
Oh, I understand that part, but they could go even further.
Sewage meters in the pipes below the frat houses. Methane detectors next to the carbon dioxide detectors.
The comedic possibilities are endless, i.e. Jerry Lewis (Ladies Man).
So you end up with the music department getting more money and departments who actually seek solutions will be penalized. If Ivy League is the best and brightest we are in a world of hurt.
Just turn off the lights, heat, and computers at Yale. Sounds like win-win to me.
Wait for the fires and CO poisoning to occur as students sneak in unauthorized (and not cataloged by the CO2 cops) heating devices this winter...
Gaia. Think before you flush.
Cool. So precious snowflakes can roast in summer and freeze in winter. Enjoy.
I think you are off by maybe fifty years.
The same scientific method they use for global warming. They will get 3 (or more) guys with scientific backgrounds to do extensive calculations & then guess. Then they will go with highest guess +10%.
This is one of the ads from M&M's ad campaign for Climate Week
Lots of wind bags around yale?
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