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It's so weird that Steve Bannon (yes, that Steve Bannon) was brought on to manage this project for two years from 1994 to 1996.

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Environmental and green-related projects have a history of purposeful sabotage by business/industry.

See: NiMH battery patent encumbrances.

More recently, trade objections by the tiny US solar manufacturing industry causing solar panel imports to dramatically slow while everyone waits to see what the feds think about foreign solar panels not meeting trade regs.

People downvoting this may not be aware that Bannon was absolutely a nutcase and caused constant shitstorms on this project.

> People downvoting this may not be aware that Bannon was absolutely a nutcase and caused constant shitstorms on this project.

Was???

Yes was. He still is, but he was too.

Are you deliberately channeling Mitch Hedberg, or is it purely a coincidence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHA5CIL0fg

Very deliberate.

Yeah I remember watching the documentary about the history of the group that created Biosphere2, and I had my mind blown when Bannon showed up at the end.

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