Oh, I'm sure I can find some cancer causing crap somewhere in what you eat, be sure of that.

Idk how to feel about this. Is it good? Is it bad? What prevents the food from continuing to grow? What keeps the cells that tell it to grow to stop? This seems like the start of a horror movie and im not willing to be a lab rat

I get the criticism of zoos, but it’s worth noting that they’re not all bad. In this instance, the tortoises are critically endangered due to the illegal pet trade, so putting them back out in the wild is most likely a death sentence for them, or they’ll end up in the pet trade where they won’t be able to be a part of reproduction/repopulation efforts.

There’s also this:

> A portion of each Zoo membership and admission goes toward helping the Zoo’s partners in Madagascar replant wildlife habitat to save animals in the wild.

From the zoo’s site.

Having animals in captivity purely for entertainment/profit is objectively bad. Having them in captivity because they’d otherwise be extinct (at the hands of people) is less bad.

oh you mean trees?

wholesome! And to live that loooong.

SUCH A GOOD BOYYYYYYYYYYYY!

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Sounds like cancer but anyway we like meat, later we’ll see if eating cancer cells is bad for humans.

You're right... Lemme get you another Big Mac, you got me.

Lmao, the irony here is mind blowing

Just wait until someone makes jerk GOOD meat. The jokes write themselves from that point

Mr piiiiiickleeeeesssss

This is what voting for the right people can do.

It’s easy to be cynical about this, it’s obvious so much more is needed. However you have to start somewhere and we’re seeing stories like this more and more

It also sounds like the vast bulk of the CO2 reduction comes not from the capture of carbon from the air, but changing the chemical composition of the concrete (using significantly less cement). The downside to their approach is the concrete must be baked on site.

Not to say this is a bad approach, there are plenty of uses for precast concrete, but it also makes this process useless for any concrete which needs to be poured in-situ and allowed to cure (eg footpaths, building slabs, etc.).

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The EPA says “In 2021, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions totaled 6,347.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents”.

This plant will claim to remove 500 tons per year. We are going to need a lot more stuff like this to make a difference.

And they're going after the people at the top, too. Actually dealing with the source of the issue. Good stuff.

The plant already exists. In the article, they say that a portion of the plant is being retrofitted.

The biggest red flag for me is the claim that they'll pull co2 out of the air. That'll require a lot of energy just to pull that off. It would be better to get the co2 from a concentrated source such as a smokestack or exhaust pipe. I don't see how their proposed process will result in a net carbon sequestration unless the energy comes from nuclear power or carbonless renewable energy.

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I have a feeling a plant that big doesn't get made before a working small scale prototype.

But who knows. Maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe I'm too stoned to tell.

It’s kind of depressing to read the posts there regarding medical advancements because of that. It’s like “oh this new med seems great even tho it likely won’t come out in the next 15 years!” Then, even after it does, it would be so expensive and practically out of reach for the average person until it goes generic. There are several newer meds I’d love to try, but they are just so expensive for those of us in the US even with insurance.

> The generation of immortalized cell lines (cells that > will proliferate indefinitely), is described in the > now-expired US Patent 5,672,485.

Is this...a tumor?

Power of all kinds tends to have issues with it's materials.

There's a reason why metal is recycled.

This is like when the Ancient Super God is trapped in the earth for millions of years to be released by some archeologists and now he's trying to take over the world.