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Comment win/win for the oil companys: credits And more oil (Score 1) 81

by farmout on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @09:51PM (#64458345) Attached to: Shell Sold Millions of 'Phantom' Carbon Credits

yah, tax credits are great for carbon capture : Occidental says the captured carbon will be stored in rock deep underground, but its website also refers to the company’s use of captured carbon in a process called “enhanced oil recovery.” This involves pushing carbon into wells to force out the hard-to-reach remnants of oil — allowing fossil fuel companies to extract even more from aging oil fields.

Comment snowblade? (Score 1) 27

by farmout on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:35PM (#63584722) Attached to: AWS Teases Mysterious Mil-Spec 'Snowblade' Server

obviously intended for nuclear winter :-(

Comment Re:This Is How We Get Zombies (Score 1) 40

by farmout on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @12:04PM (#62699758) Attached to: Genetically Engineered Pig Hearts Transplanted Into Dead People

better yet, HUMAN headed pigs! (should even be technically possible...)

Submission + - Genetically Engineered Pig Hearts Transplanted Into Dead People (theverge.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers successfully transplanted genetically modified pig hearts into two recently deceased people connected to ventilators, the New York University team announced today. The surgeries are the latest step forward in the field of animal-to-human transplants, or xenotransplantation, which has seen a flurry of successes so far this year — raising hopes for a new, steady supply of organs to ease shortages. The only thing different about these heart transplants from a normal human-to-human heart transplant was the organ itself, the research team said in a statement.

The team performed the transplants on June 16th and July 9th, and each recipient was monitored for three days. In that time, the hearts functioned normally, and there weren’t signs of rejection from the recipients, who were connected to ventilators to keep their body processes functioning semi-regularly, even after death. The two recipients were not able to be organ donors but were able to participate in whole-body donation for this type of research. The two pig hearts came from biotechnology company Revivicor, which produces genetically modified pigs (and also funded the research). The pigs had 10 genetic modifications — four to block pig genes and prevent rejection and six to add human genes.

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