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This facility will remove 4,000 tons of CO2 a year.

An average person produces 5 tons of CO2 a year. So it will be removing the CO2 produced by 800 people.

I think it would be cheaper to pay people not to fly for holidays, etc.




Tech has to start somewhere. How much RAM did the first supercomputer have? Might’ve been easier to use pen and paper.


Comparing miniaturization / advances in computers to the energy industry is quite misleading. They're not garanteed to follow the same route.


Of course I agree and was just being rhetorical! I just think it’s better to applaud the progress here than fault it for not having yet solved all the world’s problems


The law of conservation of energy applies here. You can't make a gigaton of CO2 weigh any less than a billion tons.




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