Posted on 01/17/2020 9:42:05 AM PST by Enlightened1
Microsoft says it's going to take its commitment to being carbon neutral one step further.
In an announcement on Thursday, the tech giant says it will strive to be 'carbon negative,' meaning it will attempt to remove more CO2 from the atmosphere than it emits using a mixture of renewable energy and carbon-cleansing technology that pulls emitted fumes from the atmosphere.
When the company reaches zero, it then plans to remove all carbon it has emitted since it was founded in 1975.
While carbon capture technology exists, Microsoft has acknowledged that it's not quite efficient enough to sustainably remove CO2 from the environment.
To help improve that end, Microsoft said it will also invest another $1 billion throughout the next four years into advancing performance and lowering cost.
'The world’s climate experts agree that the world must take urgent action to bring down emissions. Ultimately, we must reach “net zero” emissions, meaning that humanity must remove as much carbon as it emits each year,' Microsoft wrote in an announcement.
'This will take aggressive approaches, new technology that doesn’t exist today, and innovative public policy. It is an ambitious – even audacious – goal, but science tells us that it’s a goal of fundamental importance to every person alive today and for every generation to follow.'
Microsoft, which has been carbon neutral since 2012, said it will also shift its resources to focus on renewable fuel and has targeted a goal of relying entirely on renewable energy by 2025.
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Brain is soft.
So Windows will now only run on the most energy efficient and slowest PCs? No more power sucking gaming Windows PCs?
Otherwise their product cannot be carbon negative.
CO2 is necessary for life.
Extracting it from the atmosphere could result in catastrophe.
M$ can always buy some CO2 indulgences from Al Gore.
Thats a lot of former employees
It’s CARBON that has given every peon modern lifestyle that even Kings 200 years ago could not have dreamed of.
I’ll never understand this carbon FETISH and drive to stop using it.
It took man a few thousand years to master mining, minerals extraction, chemistry, metallurgy, calculus, machining, welding, thermodynamics, combustion, electricity, etc to bring us electric power and all the wonders it provides us for pennies.
Yet all these idiots are determined to return us to the stone age.
There is simply NO WAY that “renewables” in their horribly dilute fashion can deliver the amount of energy that concentrated carbon (or uranium) can deliver.
CO2 is necessary for life.
Extracting it from the atmosphere could result in catastrophe.
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Indeed. Year after year we see new all time records for crop yields. If you want to kill the planet and everyone on it just get rid of all that bad C02.
Idiots.
Going to need a lot of carbon capture to make up for emissions from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer’s lifestyle.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-wants-to-stop-hurricanes-2009-7
Maybe they ought to be methane negative by only hiring non-farting employees.
There you go.... lunatics destroying the earth
Doing their best to starve vegetation, cause famine and desertification.
Sad
Maybe they’re going to hook up every computer up to a pedal powered generator. Then you can get your exercise while you’re gaming too!
Microsoft needs to send me a check for a trillion dollars—I will solve the problem for them.
(especially since there isn’t a problem to solve—but we will let that be our little secret, eh? ;-) )
CO2 will be injected into Windows 10. Windows 7 exempt from CO2 injection
Progtards - are there any more stoooopid idjits alive in the world today, other than Musloid inbreds?
They will never be carbon negative. To be that, they have to be non-living. All living organisms are composed of complex molecules composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and other elements.
Ohhhhh! they meant “Carbon-dioxide neutral!” but they didn’t say that. Fine. Stop breathing.
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