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Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see::Google will use satellite data, AI, and its computing power to map methane emissions around the globe. The transparency marks a new era in climate accountability.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aside from Googles claims that they’re carbon neutral and only use/purchase renewable, how much carbon is this going to create?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, Google aint carbon neutral. Carbon credits are fake. You can't pay another country to add your emissions to theirs and say that you're neutral. That's greenwashing. Good question though about the carbon emissions. I don't have any data to draw on, but it would be some kind of function of how many PCs/server racks are responsible for processing the data.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Carbon credits are fake.

Carbon credits should instead be a tax - one that every major corporation has to pay based off their carbon emissions, and the funds should be used exclusively to fund renewable energy sources, renewable goods manufacturing, and to repair the damage done by traditional fuels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Carbon credits should instead be a tax

Money being fungible, its all functionally the same. But our business-friendly government officials tend to be stingy with taxes and generous with credits. So its politically more expedient for the legislature to offer large bounties on plugged pipes than to pass a large penalty on unplugged ones.

That's because of a little thing called "kickbacks" which keep the whole engine of publicly funded commerce running. My carbon capture credit becomes your campaign donation becomes next years "My rival punched a baby" screamer news ad plus hush money for the mom of the baby I punched six months ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Soon they’ll be selling methane credits to the oil companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They'll need to start consuming all that extra electricity to power LLMs to analyze climate change data🤔