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$25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix

Posted by Zonk on from the bring-me-the-head-of-global-warming dept.

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."

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  1. Good News, Everyone! by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All we need to do is drop a large ice cube in the ocean every now and then. Thereby solving the problem.

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  2. Re:Plant Respiration by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Plant Respiration by Randolpho · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  4. Pah! Trivial! by zmollusc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Simply declare co2 to be the worlds currency and pretty soon it will all be safely locked away in swiss vaults.

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  5. Solve global Warming and more by FinchWorld · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:Plant Respiration by menkhaura · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, once you burn the grass for... eh... medicinal purposes, the carbon will be re-released into the atmosphere

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  7. Re:Plant Respiration by QuickFox · · Score: 4, Funny

    I once knew a chick This is Slashdot you insensitive clod!
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  8. Re:Plant Respiration by QuickFox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mass genocide of all developing countries humans then use that now vacant land to plant the trees. Your idea has merit, but it would be far, far more efficient to kill the rich, as we spew out orders of magnitude more pollution per capita than the poor.
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  9. Re:Ok but that brings me back to the 2nd question by chris_eineke · · Score: 4, Funny

    someone would find a way to do it quickly, safely, and cheaply
    Hey, that's easy. Just dump it into the ocean. That'll give the marine biologists a couple of new monster species, too. Where is my government tax break and research grant?

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  10. Re:Ok but that brings me back to the 2nd question by Broken+scope · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... if only I could smack people through my monitor.

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