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Yale Imposes Carbon Fee On Its Own Buildings
dailycaller.com ^ | 9/19/2017 | David Krayden

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: ecowankers; fidiots; globalwarming
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To: moovova

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.


21 posted on 09/19/2017 8:31:08 AM PDT by moovova
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To: All

Yale=Bushes=Yale


22 posted on 09/19/2017 8:33:21 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: rktman

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.


23 posted on 09/19/2017 8:37:05 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: rktman

Money laundering at its finest.


24 posted on 09/19/2017 8:39:06 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: Skywise
This is STUPID!

Sir, HOW DARE YOU! THIS is YALE!

25 posted on 09/19/2017 8:39:28 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: rktman

Carbon is generally black when visible. Wouldn’t reducing things black be aggressively racis’ ?


26 posted on 09/19/2017 8:39:34 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: moovova

Hey! Vibrators can run on batteries. That power shouldn’t count against the dorm.


27 posted on 09/19/2017 8:40:42 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: moovova

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.


28 posted on 09/19/2017 8:47:28 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: rktman

Texas should help these azzclowns and shut off the energy pipelines to the NE this winter.


29 posted on 09/19/2017 8:48:32 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Pearls Before Swine

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).


30 posted on 09/19/2017 8:54:43 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: rktman

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.


31 posted on 09/19/2017 9:07:20 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: rktman

Just turn off the lights, heat, and computers at Yale. Sounds like win-win to me.


32 posted on 09/19/2017 9:07:27 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: All

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...


33 posted on 09/19/2017 9:14:21 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: wbarmy
Oh, I understand that part, but they could go even further. Sewage meters...

Gaia. Think before you flush.

34 posted on 09/19/2017 9:19:10 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Cool. So precious snowflakes can roast in summer and freeze in winter. Enjoy.


35 posted on 09/19/2017 9:20:38 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Portcall24
This country has literally been exclusively run by Ivy Leaguers since 1989. And yes we are in a world of hurt. Now we know why.
36 posted on 09/19/2017 9:35:18 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

I think you are off by maybe fifty years.


37 posted on 09/19/2017 9:38:47 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: wbarmy
"How in the name of Jerry Lewis will they measure carbon emissions?"

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%.

38 posted on 09/19/2017 9:42:45 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: rktman
M&M's Renewable Energy is Pretty Sweet

This is one of the ads from M&M's ad campaign for Climate Week

39 posted on 09/19/2017 10:27:05 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

Lots of wind bags around yale?


40 posted on 09/19/2017 10:33:10 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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