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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."
Ride a bicycle.
Where's my money?
This is just stupid. I can't believe it actually made it on /.
Anyone who thinks global warming is strictly a man-made problem: stop driving cars, stop using airplanes, stop using air-conditioning, stop using electricity, stop eating beef, stop drinking milk, stop farting, and stop breathing. With a billion fewer people on the planet, this problem might just go away.
When you look into the cost of wind, solar, electric cars (that ARE viable and BETTER than petrol ones, when done right), you start to realise that for the price of the ABSOLUTE FUCKING MADNESS that is called war (esp war on iraq) and the ongoing costs of the war machine, we could completely switch away from fossil (and nuclear) fuels and go wind/solar.
DONT tell me its not possible due to variability in the power source, THIS IS BULLSHIT, just build more than we need so even in low wind/sun there is enough power, and also pay for some damn energy storage (eg water towers or hydrogen production, whatever; solutions exist, and are not a problem when you start throwing the billions/trillions that are WASTED on the millitary at the problem.). DOnt tell me electric cars arent viable as they take too long to charge: this problem has been SOLVED (look up nano batteries and similar), (and posted on here multiple times I might note) its just not being used (and would have been solved LONG ago if it had any sort of decent money thrown at it (im talking millitary/nuclear funding decent, not the shit leftovers renewables get now)
watch "the money masters" on google video
We do NOTHING, and the world goes on efficiently, and it self corrects by growing more plants. I therefore claim the $25 million prize for the least expensive solution.