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advisedwang
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Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microso...
Microsoft says [1] they're going to be carbon negative by 2030. Hard to see them doing that while deploying gigawatts of new fossil fuels.
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sus...
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ecshafer
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Its easy, they are going to use fancy accounting to make it come true. Produce a ton of carbon, then buy a cheap, under-priced carbon credit to make it be a zero.
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speed_spread
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Or they'll use the greenhouse potential difference between released unburned methane and CO2 to greenwash the project.
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ray_v
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it's easy ... they'll just change the definition of "carbon negative"!
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[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sus...