Friday's Energy Absurdity: Billy Blazejowski the Climate Alarm Idea Man Strikes Again!
He's got a million of 'em!
All you younger readers are just going to have to get used to this old reference, because Billy Blazejowski, the “idea man” played by Michael Keaton in the hilarious ‘80s comedy “Night Shift,” has truly been reincarnated and is working hard to kill the climate alarm boogeyman.
Back on April 3, I wrote about how the 21st century Billy Blaze brought us the grand idea of blocking the sun by floating thousands of huge helium-filled balloons into the stratosphere to fight the climate boogeyman. Sure, after all, nothing could possibly go wrong with such a plan. It’s even better than Billy’s early idea to sell cans of tuna with the mayonnaise already inside. Who can even argue with this stuff?
This week gives us a group of Billy Blazejowskis at LanzaTech with another fantastic idea to cure the climate-demic. And don’t worry: No big balloons are involved in this one. Indeed, these idea men aren’t planning to put anything into the atmosphere at all, which should give us all a huge sigh of relief!
Until, that is, you read what they are planning on doing.
I’ll let this excerpt from a story at OilPrice.com fill you in:
U.S.-based biotechnology firm is using carbon-eating bacteria to turn emissions from steel mills, refineries, and other heavily polluting industrial processes into ethanol and chemicals, helping reduce carbon emissions and make recycled, sustainable products.
LanzaTech, which has been operating at a commercial scale since 2018, not only captures the carbon gases at industrial sites but it also transforms them – using bacteria in bioreactors – into fuels and chemicals. These recycled products are directly replacing virgin fossil carbon in consumer goods and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the company says.
"LanzaTech's carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals," the biotechnology firm says.
"You can find carbon dioxide from almost every steel mill and refinery. You can even make it from trash," LanzaTech's chief executive officer Jennifer Holmgren told The Wall Street Journal.
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Ok, so, we’re going to eat the carbon with bacteria. Let’s all remember that carbon dioxide is not any sort of pollutant whatsoever, no matter what any 5 idiots (I’m looking at you, Anthony Kennedy) on any US Supreme Court have ruled. Carbon dioxide is, in truth, the very foundation for all life on planet Earth.
But now the Billy Blazejowskis at LanzaTech, driven by climate alarm hysteria, are spreading bacteria to eat it.
Hey, we’re all carbon-based beings, aren’t we? Remember the meme below that sits atop my landing page?
hmmmmmmmm…Billy Blaze might be more of a threat than we all thought.
That is all.
If you turn LanzaTech on its head, you’re likely to see Z-analTech, which is probably what they’re aiming for.
Hard to believe Lanza-tech is "operating at a commercial scale". Let me guess - they're subsidized, right?