‘Microsoft Wants Your Poop to Lower Its Emissions’ – Seeks to ‘store human waste underground’ to offset ‘carbon footprint’ & ‘combat climate change’ – Bill Gates’ firm has ‘insatiable appetite for power to feed its AI habit’

WSJ: “Involves buying human and farm waste and piping it thousands of feet underground through a pump that acts like giant syringe. … It is just one of a number of new ways of offsetting carbon that Microsoft is backing, betting that these technologies will help to combat climate change by stopping carbon dioxide and methane from entering the atmosphere. … 

Vaulted Deep collects what it calls “bioslurry”—which could be human waste from a city’s sewage system, excess manure from farm fields or sludge left over from paper mills. It then grinds it up before injecting it some 5,000 feet underground. … 

Microsoft is aiming to be carbon negative by 2030, and is seeking by 2050 to remove from the environment more greenhouse gases than the company has emitted since its founding.

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Climate Depot note: This is not Microsoft’s first dalliance with poop: Flashback 2015: Bill Gates brags: ‘I drank water made from human feces’

Cheers! NYT: ‘Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change’ – John Christy, Roy Spencer & Steven E. Koonin

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EPA asks White House to bless rollback of 2009 CO2 endangerment finding

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Decarbonization Myth Frays as Hydrocarbon Use Grows

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Former Sierra Club Chief Carl Pope laments focus on carbon dioxide: Now claims ‘methane is an urgent problem’ – ‘What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change’ – ‘It wasn’t until 3 years ago that I came to see the gravity of my mistake’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/opinion/climate-change-methane-natural-gas.html By Carl Pope Mr. Pope is a clean energy policy adviser to several foundations and was the executive director of the Sierra Club from 1992 to 2010. Excerpt: In my 50 years in the environmental movement, the decision I most regret is one I made in 2005. As the executive director of the Sierra […]

New Study: Physics Demonstrates That Increasing Greenhouse Gases Cannot Cause Dangerous Warming, Extreme Weather or Any Harm

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