Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions
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so the AI stuff causes too much CO2, instead of fixing their own hardware, the best they could do is to offset that CO2 amount by burying shit?
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How many turds can you buy for a billion dollars. . ?
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Damn from that photo it looks like some people have a seriously high fiber diet.
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so the AI stuff causes too much CO2, instead of fixing their own hardware, the best they could do is to offset that CO2 amount by burying shit?
Yes, burying fertilizer traps biomass CO2 and then they can use that as carbon credit equivalent to claim CO² neutrality.
Of course, there's a reason why fertilizer is an inexpensive source of fixated carbon biomass and
this means all fertilizer will increase in price by the amount value of it's CO2 carbon credit equivalentThen maybe the buried fertilizer will become so valuable that it can be dug out and sold as fertilizer again.
I don't see any problems with this plan !
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Devil's advocate says: 5000 ft is probably below groundwater level. But tbh idk. Hell, they could even use spent oil reservoirs.
use spent oil reservoirs
Ok, that lead to some giggles thinking about some company drilling in the future thinking they were about to hit a strangely untapped oil field.
Add a hundred years of methane pressure build up and that could be really interesting gusher.
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But that's fertilizer! WTF?
It's also precious cheap carbon credit, don't worry it will only increase world wide fertilize costs by the value of the carbon credits but thing of all the methane they can burn to make electricity.
It's like converting our fertilizer directly into electricity, except its carbon sequestered 5000 feet under ground !
Maybe the fertilizer prices will increase so much it will become worththile to dig that 5000 feet mine and get that fertilizer back in the bio carbon cycle in 30 years when fertilizer costs more than aluminium does today !
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What about the nutrients in the waste? Why not compost it, capture the methane offgassing, and store that?
But what do you do with the methane, can't story it and if you burn it, you release the CO² which was the point of burying fertilizer while it's CO² carbon credit value is less than the price of the fertilizer itself.
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use spent oil reservoirs
Ok, that lead to some giggles thinking about some company drilling in the future thinking they were about to hit a strangely untapped oil field.
Add a hundred years of methane pressure build up and that could be really interesting gusher.
Watching Landman or you just familiar with the lingo?
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using human waste as fertilizer isn't a good idea.
human waste contains everything that a person has consumes. this includes disease causing pathogens and parasites.
if it were to be used as a fertilizer it would need to go through multiple stages of expensive processing and testing to ensure safety. it's far more cost effective and safer to use food by-product like fish cuttings to create fertilizers.
Can’t it be “baked” or irradiated to kill the pathogens? And then sold as “not for human food use” for good measure?
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We truly are in the metaverse era.
They found a way to convert physical shit into virtual shit.
And vice versa!
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so the AI stuff causes too much CO2, instead of fixing their own hardware, the best they could do is to offset that CO2 amount by burying shit?
It's poetic... MS AI slings out massive amounts of shit and now the company gets to bury some of it to compensate
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Yes, burying fertilizer traps biomass CO2 and then they can use that as carbon credit equivalent to claim CO² neutrality.
Of course, there's a reason why fertilizer is an inexpensive source of fixated carbon biomass and
this means all fertilizer will increase in price by the amount value of it's CO2 carbon credit equivalentThen maybe the buried fertilizer will become so valuable that it can be dug out and sold as fertilizer again.
I don't see any problems with this plan !
Then maybe the buried fertilizer will become so valuable that it can be dug out and sold as fertilizer again.
I don't see any problems with this plan !
except the part the planet may be uninhabitable for humans by then due to the massive CO2 we are spewing to get slop from AI...
other than that, no problem at all
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I thought the billion dollars of excrement they bought was OpenAI
self-five
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Then maybe the buried fertilizer will become so valuable that it can be dug out and sold as fertilizer again.
I don't see any problems with this plan !
except the part the planet may be uninhabitable for humans by then due to the massive CO2 we are spewing to get slop from AI...
other than that, no problem at all
Sure, sure but !
“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.” -
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I'm surprised they had to outsource that as they have been producing so much shit for decades.
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Watching Landman or you just familiar with the lingo?
Oh, was I using the correct lingo for hundred year old methane powered shit gushers? I had no idea. Lol!
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Yes, burying fertilizer traps biomass CO2 and then they can use that as carbon credit equivalent to claim CO² neutrality.
Of course, there's a reason why fertilizer is an inexpensive source of fixated carbon biomass and
this means all fertilizer will increase in price by the amount value of it's CO2 carbon credit equivalentThen maybe the buried fertilizer will become so valuable that it can be dug out and sold as fertilizer again.
I don't see any problems with this plan !
Then maybe the buried fertilizer will become so valuable that it can be dug out and sold as fertilizer again.
Between the methane that generates and easily obtained phosphorous trapped down there, that's strictly a matter of time, unfortunately.
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I thought the billion dollars of excrement they bought was OpenAI
self-five
ohhhhhhYou're off by a factory of 13x
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I always said it. Micro$oft is full of shit
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Greenwashing is a fraud.
Tecnowashing is also fraud.
Take a failed concept like the gold standard, technowash it, and you get crypto scamcoins.
Greenwashing, sportswashing (saudi arabia), sanewashing (presenting insane ideas as debatable ideas, like debating human rights with someone who is against human rights ends up sanewashing the anti-rights position), small business washing (using ostensibly a pro small business argument to push a fortune 100 agenda), worker washing (treat workers like shit in private but make pro worker noises in public), gender washing (the politician with an anti-woman agenda is a woman so it's OK), minority washing (a fascist pundit is a minority that fascism often targets, so fascism is OK now). Now we can add tecnowashing to the list.
Another example of technowashing is when a real estate company presents itself as a tech startup to inflate its valuation.
All this washing has exploded in recent years.
