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Instead of trying to bury it, grow more. Increasing the total living biomass would reduce CO2.
by snarfy 10y ago
Instead of trying to bury it, grow more. Increasing the total living biomass would reduce CO2.
- jofer 10y agoOnly for a year or a few years. Biomass doesn't really sequester that much carbon on a long-term scale. You need to move CO2 from the atmosphere into the geosphere. Biomass can do that (e.g. hydrocarbons), but it's inefficient (a lot of it goes back to the atmosphere) and slow. Carbonate precipitation is much more permanent, and it's something we can force to happen at a high rate.