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Climate Change 2: Thank God for Global Warming

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dxmnkd316 said:
3M has announced that as of today, 100% of all electricity powering its HQ is wind-based. The HQ is home to >12,000 people. The company also set goals of of 50% renewable energy for its global operations by 2025 and 100% by 2050.

https://news.3m.com/stories/flipping-the-switch-to-100-percent-renewable-electricity-at-3m
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Yes, they've bought the renewable resources to make that claim.

But, when the sun doesn't shine and the wind is calm (and without storage tech) their campus will be powered by the Monticello nuclear facility or the Great River Energy coal fired plant at Underwood, ND, like the rest of MSP.

It's honorable goal setting; it's awesome virtue signalling; but, 3M is dependent upon baseline load carrying facilities until we have storage tech figured out.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Yes, they've bought the renewable resources to make that claim.

But, when the sun doesn't shine and the wind is calm (and without storage tech) their campus will be powered by the Monticello nuclear facility or the Great River Energy coal fired plant at Underwood, ND, like the rest of MSP.

It's honorable goal setting; it's awesome virtue signalling; but, 3M is dependent upon baseline load carrying facilities until we have storage tech figured out.
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Aaah, yes, Captain Cold Water is here.
 
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GrinCDXX said:
Viable as a method of carbon capture, not as a fuel.
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Better than nothing.
If it's solidified it could be reclaimed in restoration of where the original coal came from (unless the liquefied metal process makes that untenable or unviable).
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Better than nothing.
If it's solidified it could be reclaimed in restoration of where the original coal came from (unless the liquefied metal process makes that untenable or unviable).
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It's perfect actually:

1. Burn coal for energy.
2. Pipe the CO2 into a facility where it's turned back into coal.
3. Go back to step 1.

Renewable coal!
 
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The Sicatoka said:
virtue signalling
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This is the most useful expression ever created because as soon as somebody uses it you can just put them on Ignore forever, they're an as-swipe.

Seriously, language is a conveyor of meaning and boy does that expression convey meaning.
 
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GrinCDXX said:
It's perfect actually:

1. Burn coal for energy.
2. Pipe the CO2 into a facility where it's turned back into coal.
3. Go back to step 1.

Renewable coal!
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Didn't you already say the resultant post-combustion is no longer viable as fuel.
 
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Kepler said:
This is the most useful expression ever created because as soon as somebody uses it you can just put them on Ignore forever, they're an as-swipe.

Seriously, language is a conveyor of meaning and boy does that expression convey meaning.
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Would calling it self-aggrandizing claims of a dubious nature make it better?

They are trying to illustrate and make prominent their purity and goodwill toward the environment (even when it is easy to show there are still shortcomings). They are signalling their purported virtue.
 
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Shorter Sic: I know empathy is just a con. No, I don't think I'm a sociopath, why?
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Would calling it self-aggrandizing claims of a dubious nature make it better?

They are trying to illustrate and make prominent their purity and goodwill toward the environment (even when it is easy to show there are still shortcomings). They are signalling their purported virtue.
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Do you strive to be this dumb or does it come naturally?
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Didn't you already say the resultant post-combustion is no longer viable as fuel.
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That's not what I meant. I meant that having the technology to turn CO2 into coal doesn't mean that emitting CO2 for energy is no longer a problem.
 
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Kepler said:
This is the most useful expression ever created because as soon as somebody uses it you can just put them on Ignore forever, they're an as-swipe.

Seriously, language is a conveyor of meaning and boy does that expression convey meaning.
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That and "SJW". You'd think "Social Justice" is a positive thing, but you'd be wrong, because 30 year old virgins on reddit use it as an insult.
 
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