/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11441260
Trees are a really shitty carbon sink.

>>11303859
Evidently, the company has their GMO trees down to a 5-years to harvest time frame now.

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>>11002220
Actually, there are species of grass that grow ultra fast and sequester carbon with a much higher turn around rate than even the 7-year-to-harvest GMO eucalyptus that Brazilian paper company grows. Also, when not cut down, grasslands store more carbon in a more reliable way than a forest does. This is because the grass stores most of the carbon in its roots underground. Thus, when there's a fire, not as much carbon is released into the atmospehre when the grass burns, unlike a burning forest.

Burying logs, while a pretty good idea for carbon sequestration, it is not viable in an economic manner. Some companies and countries have lumber storage programs that sink logs into bodies of water in order to preserve them. In locations in Canada, sunken logs from 100+ years ago are highly sought after for their exceptional wood.

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>>10763243
Sounds like a bad solution to a non-problem. I suggest we remove the worst greenhouse chemical from the atmosphere...H2O. If we remove H2O from the atmosphere run away greenhouse effects will be halted instantly.

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>>10662553
Popularity is what controls the subsidy pool. Renewables are taking a bigger cut than ever before and that's taking it out of nuclear's cut.

>>10443244
BEHOLD

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>>10336438
Look into Algae farming for making biodiesel.

>>10105447
It is a silly idea. How about creating less CO2?

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>>9903666
/sci/ came up with this the last year. Basically, not much land is needed for growing the trees in respect to how much CO2 they need to capture versus how much CO2 is created around the world every year. Once sunk into the trench, they are basically there forever. The trench is so large that you could do this for the next 100k years and not run out of space. In fact, there's enough room to literally fill the entire trench up with all the carbon molecules, on the face of the planet, and still have room left over.