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$25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix
SaDan writes "Richard Branson is offering $25M as a bounty for a fix to global warming. The person or organization that can devise a method to remove at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the atmosphere will be able to claim the bounty. There are a few catches, of course. There can't be any negative impact on the environment, and the payment will come in chunks. A 5 million dollar payout will be paid when the system is put into place with the remainder of the bounty to be paid after 10 years of continuous use."
All we need to do is drop a large ice cube in the ocean every now and then. Thereby solving the problem.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
It's called an air-conditioner. Duh.
Yes, Martha, I'm fully aware that the Carnot cycle shows that air conditioners cause a net heating of the environment when the heat dump and the cold reservoir are summed. That is to say the above is a joke.
I once knew a chick who was so tightly wound she would probably excrete diamonds if you fed her carbon. Perhaps we could get a group of that type of people together and solve the problem that way.
The technology is there to do the scrubbing, the issue is more how do you do that process without using a whole lot of energy to do it? And of course, that energy has to come from a plant somewhere that is putting CO2 back into the atmosphere...
Ideally, you'd run the process on solar energy I suppose. Hmm... an air scrubber that runs on solar energy.
Sounds suspiciously like a tree!
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That might solve the "I want diamonds" problem, but there are two fatal flaws:
1) Eating carbon won't reduce carbon dioxide
2) The folks at DeBeers will come for you in the dead of night.
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-Marilyn Manson
Simply declare co2 to be the worlds currency and pretty soon it will all be safely locked away in swiss vaults.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
Eat the homeless, now we have enough housing. Eat criminals, no more over full jails, possible drop in crime rates. Eat everyone who live in a house with an odd number, halfing amount of cars on the road. And with all that eating we solve third world hunger too.
"I may be full of crap about this game, and I may be wrong, and that's fine." -Jack Thompson
My method doesn't actually remove 1 billion pounds, rather it prevents that 1 billion from being released. I cannot talk about all the details until the patent is filed, but let's just say it involves Rush Limbaugh and a really large cork.
Didn't James Bond already stop you once in Moonraker?
Well, once you burn the grass for... eh... medicinal purposes, the carbon will be re-released into the atmosphere
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Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
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... if only I could smack people through my monitor.
You mad