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      02-28-2024, 05:07 PM   #6865
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Odd it looks like the US Government is doing just that very thing.
DOE Announces Up to $100 Million for Pilot-Scale Testing of Advanced Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies
February 12, 2024

https://www.energy.gov/fecm/carbon-dioxide-removal

Maybe not all just most, Nothing is too absurd for the Government to spend out tax money on.
Life on Earth ends if all of the carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere. No one is suggesting this be done.
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Life on Earth ends if all of the carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere. No one is suggesting this be done.
Like I said, anthropogenic CO2:

From the reference:
"Paired with simultaneous deployment of mitigation measures and other carbon management practices, CDR is a tool to address emissions from the hardest to decarbonize sectors—like agriculture and transportation—and to eventually remove legacy CO2 emissions from the atmosphere."

Life also doesn't exist if there is not enough CO2 in the atmosphere. Here's an idea, let's let the Govenment handle it.

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How many Greenies understand that? 5%?
No one worries about this.
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      02-28-2024, 07:54 PM   #6868
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Two Teslas burn in San Francisco, weeks after autonomous vehicle arson
Feb. 27, 2024
A pair of Teslas caught fire and were destroyed in San Francisco over the weekend just weeks after a self-driving electric vehicle was torched in a nearby neighborhood, according to authorities.
Over a 30-minute period early Saturday morning, the San Francisco Fire Department responded to two separate vehicle fires in close proximity, on Bonifacio Street near Mabini Street and Shipley Street between 4th and 5th streets, officials said.
The department extinguished the fires and began investigating at least one as a suspected arson.
Video obtained by CBS News Bay Area showed the origins of the second fire: a person setting the white Tesla Model Y ablaze around 12:45 a.m. The unidentified person ignited a fire in one of the wheel wells, causing the entire vehicle to go up in flames within minutes, the video shows.
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...-vehicle-arson

If you just wait they will probably catch fire on their own.
Seriously, Stop being dick heads and burning cars.
In Belgium today : BUS COMPANY "COMPLETELY DESTROYED" BY HEAVY FIRE : 15 buses and several cars completely destroyed !
The cause was very likely an EV !

Source is the Belgian Newspaper : Het Laatste Nieuws (The Latest News)

With a video and pics on this page => https://www.hln.be/lebbeke/busbedrij...ield~a8e17b0c/
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In Belgium today : BUS COMPANY "COMPLETELY DESTROYED" BY HEAVY FIRE : 15 buses and several cars completely destroyed !
The cause was very likely an EV !

Source is the Belgian Newspaper : Het Laatste Nieuws (The Latest News)

With a video and pics on this page => https://www.hln.be/lebbeke/busbedrij...ield~a8e17b0c/
The gubments response,
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ho...FY9IkUt8w,st:0
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Guess who ponies up for 15 new EV buses and a new bus garage?
Don't forget the several wrecked private cars involved in the fire also
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Over last 600million years global temperatures have been 7°C higher and CO2 levels 17.5 times than today without help of man or fossil fuels!

Odd how the greenies pick a shorter time frame to stick their hockey stick up their butt?
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Over last 600million years global temperatures have been 7°C higher and CO2 levels 17.5 times than today without help of man or fossil fuels!
Just arguing this post for the sake of arguing, I don't really care. But, the world will be fine... it was never about the world. It's about trying to preserve the status quo while riding a roller coaster.

Certain species of life will either migrate or die off and people don't like that idea.
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Just arguing this post for the sake of arguing, I don't really care. But, the world will be fine... it was never about the world. It's about trying to preserve the status quo while riding a roller coaster.

Certain species of life will either migrate or die off and people don't like that idea.
Honestly, I agree.

When you look through our history we have stories of these environmental changes we blame on God's and their wrath. There's historical evidence that the black sea flooded rapidly creating stories of the great flood. The entirety of Doggerland sank underwater within human history.

Humans have spent so much time and energy and money developing areas that are on large bodies of water that are massively at risk of flooding. We KNOW the Earth changes temperatures over time, and we KNOW sea levels were at one point so high that the Great plains of the US were an inland sea, and at one point so low you could walk from Africa, across to Europe and Asia, and then on over to North America and South America. This is irrefutably known. But modern humanity requires the climate to be essentially static, because our investments are in risky locations. Nobody wants to have to adapt to a changing climate, but we will have to.

The greatest hubris of humanity is thinking that we will prevent a naturally occurring cycle from happening to preserve our status quo. But we have all manners of charlatans lining up to fleece us for massive amounts of money
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How many Greenies understand that? 5%?
Sorry, while I am not a greenie, I am fairly certain actual greenies who aren't announcing their outrage to the internet (or just Greta) probably know this, it is not them that needs to be educated on how to save the environment.

It's those in power, paired with the billionaires who sells the idea that eliminating CO2 as some silver bullet to solve all of the world's problems rather than try and tackle the multitude of issues. And the distracted and complicit general public, who has no energy to really care outside of their bubble that is more to blame.

Emission is something they can see and it is tangible. Great Pacific Garbage Patch, mineral extraction of all kinds, world hunger, child labour, clearcutting of old grove, microplastics, toxic waste, bleaching of corals, all of these and more, are not within the general public's scope of vision.

Out of sight, out of mind.
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Over last 600million years global temperatures have been 7°C higher and CO2 levels 17.5 times than today without help of man or fossil fuels!

Odd how the greenies pick a shorter time frame to stick their hockey stick up their butt?
Yes, but you failed to point out what happened during the late Carboniferous period. Just after the invention of the wheel there was a brilliant Brontosaurus by the name of Elonisuarious Tusk who invented the solar powered Bronctaurios buggy saving all of dinosaur kind.
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This lady would hesitate zero seconds to push a button sending everyone back to the stone age. And she wouldn't care how many she had to kill to do it. This is the face of the Green Insanity. Once ICE is gone, EV's will find a $20,000+ environmental devastation tax applied, crazy times. Poor's need not apply.

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WOW, this tread really migrated from EV's wanting to Environmental mumbo jumbo.

I do think that Human Kind is badly hurting the environment and that we should do something about it ASAP.

BUT, that still not makes me want an EV P.O.S., like Tesla or Kia, ... a Taycan, maybe.
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I do think that Human Kind is badly hurting the environment and that we should do something about it ASAP.
The hubris of man is that he thinks he matters. In the 12 hour clock below (4.5 billion years) mans existence starts at 11:59:58




So now tell me how your EV is going to make a difference again? You have 1/10th of a second
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Reminds me of this:
George Carlin - Saving the Planet

''The planet is fine, the ppl are F*d''- do you copy, Greta Thumberg
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The hubris of man is that he thinks he matters. In the 12 hour clock below (4.5 billion years) mans existence starts at 11:59:58




So now tell me how your EV is going to make a difference again? You have 1/10th of a second
Completely out of context.

Then do nothing but go use your time and see if you can or can not get sick, poisoned or cancer by leaving in polluted areas.

Why is people so selfish? In an out if context 1/10 of a second... I can keep polluting and the next generations be dammed.
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Completely out of context.
There is smart and there is stupid. EV's, carbon taxes stupid, conservation of resources smart. Class dismissed.
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Reminds me of this:
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I call the BIG Electron, "The Mighty Algorithm Writer".

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Completely out of context.

Then do nothing but go use your time and see if you can or can not get sick, poisoned or cancer by leaving in polluted areas.

Why is people so selfish? In an out if context 1/10 of a second... I can keep polluting and the next generations be dammed.
Do you mean why are people selfish? I'm don't know what makes you think they are? I care deeply about the environment. I had a project of a solar car back in one of my engineering classes.

The issue isn't whether people care about the environment or not, it's about what's really going on. Our politicians are actually doing more harm than good in the false narrative of protecting the environment when it's really about more power and control. They don't give a damn about the environment.

I have a question for you and those who think like you do. When are you going to open your brain, use some common sense and see what's really going on and stop thinking like road kill?
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Do you mean why are people selfish? I'm don't know what makes you think they are? I care deeply about the environment. I had a project of a solar car back in one of my engineering classes.

The issue isn't whether people care about the environment or not, it's about what's really going on. Our politicians are actually doing more harm than good in the false narrative of protecting the environment when it's really about more power and control. They don't give a damn about the environment.

I have a question for you and those who think like you do. When are you going to open your brain, use some common sense and see what's really going on and stop thinking like road kill?

Too far gone.

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Completely out of context.

Then do nothing but go use your time and see if you can or can not get sick, poisoned or cancer by leaving in polluted areas.

Why is people so selfish? In an out if context 1/10 of a second... I can keep polluting and the next generations be dammed.
Talk about out of context. Environmental pollution that can cause cancer is separate from what are believed as green house gas emissions that affect the climate cycle by altering the natural energy absorption/dissipation of the Earth's atmosphere.

That is what aggravates me, I get preached to constantly to "believe the science" when most of the preachers don't understand the effing subject matter.
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