Co2 is pollution now?
Sure, but it's only damaging globally. It's no more damaging to the local environment than to anywhere else on the planet.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
11–20 of 86 posts
Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
#12These jet engine gas turbines create air pollution in the forms of formaldehyde and NOx and noise pollution.
Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
#13Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350
256 comments, 8 hours ago
Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
#14Don't these things get more efficient as they scale up? One big plant is probably better than 30 small ones.
efficient in money, nothing is said about other metrics it's quite possible to have more product made, thus more pollution (or less materials consumed, thus less) but concentration definitely will rise
sometime in the energy sector once told me "the solution to pollution is dilution"
Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
#15This completely ignores carbon capture and offsets. Amazon remains committed to net zero.
Amazon is not capturing carbon in any meaningful scale and planting trees is great, until they capture fire.
Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
#16Co2 is pollution now?
Yes, by burning fuels we release carbon from the thing being burned, it gets mixed with oxygen, and released into the atmosphere as co2.
As the suns energy warms the earth, the earth radiates heat back out and away from the surface and normally back out into space. co2 also acts like a blanket for that radiant heat, and traps it inside.
More co2 in the atmosphere traps more energy around the planet like an insulated wrap.
To reduce this, we have to extract the carbon out of the atmosphere and store it.
Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
#17Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
#18Finally, a structure worthy of its namesake.
Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
#19Don't these things get more efficient as they scale up? One big plant is probably better than 30 small ones.
A better question is why a company is allowed to effectively lie using fraudulent false advertising in its marketing and brand image about being environmentally conscious and become the largest polluter in the country?
Is Amazon too broke to buy the necessary land to build out wind/solar/battery? I thought a company that name sponsored “Climate Pledge Arena” could afford to pay a little bit extra to care about the climate.
A wind/solar/battery solution is not even really much more expensive than gas power and it’s far less dependent on fluctuating fuel prices.
Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
#20Don't these things get more efficient as they scale up? One big plant is probably better than 30 small ones.
A better question is why a company is allowed to effectively lie using fraudulent false advertising in its marketing and brand image about being environmentally conscious and become the largest polluter in the country? Is Amazon too broke to buy the necessary land to build out wind/solar/battery? I thought a company that name sponsored “Climate Pledge Arena” could afford to pay a little bit extra to care about the cl…
> Is Amazon too broke to buy the necessary land to build out wind/solar/battery?
It's more capital intensive, and interest rates are 8%, because our elected officials are completely incompetent.