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We all go to sleep, hoping for a dream that lays out a scam where we can rake in millions for an idea that maybe, possibly could, just might reduce cart farting in the future. It’s the dream of every thinking adult. Unfortunately, some pinheads had that dream before us and have been awarded $26.5M to come up with a vaccine to reduce cow farts and burps. Now that’s important, right? Come up with outlandish shite, throw a climate change cookie into the mix, and $26 MIL is deposited into your pocket to fuck around with.
From axios.com
ArkeaBio, a Boston developer of a vaccine to reduce livestock methane emissions, raised a $26.5 million in venture capital funding led by an investment fund founded by Bill Gates.
Why it matters: Caring about cow farts (or burps) has become a political punchline, but they’re estimated to create more than 5% of global greenhouse gasses.
- Vaccines could be a relatively low-cost, scalable solution, particularly as food demand increases.
The science: Methane is much more potent than is carbon dioxide, in terms of its trapping atmospheric heat, although it also dissipates down faster.
Thank God! I mean the atmosphere is swimming in carbon dioxide…right?
Well, not really.
78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, 0.93 percent Argon, 0.04 percent carbon dioxide as well as trace amounts of neon, helium, methane, krypton, ozone and hydrogen, as well as water vapor. – space.com
David Knight takes a closer look at this scam. 11 minutes – well worth the listen
We can fix EVERYTHING with a vaccine, even imaginary MacGuffins like methane melting down the planet. Instant hype and tens of $millions for the company selling the “solution”. But there’s a far more sinister agenda beneath it all. – The David Knight Show
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Dispatches from the Asylum 