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Thanks! I hadnt heard of Paulownia before. 3-10x more sequestration than the average tree: http://paulowniabg.info/?page_id=56 http://paulowniabg.info/?page_id=

Thanks! I hadnt heard of Paulownia before. 3-10x more sequestration than the average tree: http://paulowniabg.info/?page_id=56 http://paulowniabg.info/?page_id=56 One challenge with plant-based sequestration is that the carbon is released when the tree dies/decomposes. I wonder how planting more trees will balance out at the decade-century scale.

discreteevent 10y ago
Cut them down when mature and use them as building material.
- titojankowski 10y ago
  Wow cool, at first I said "but the CO2 gets released when the building burns down", so I looked into it. Apparently wood has a ton of benefits, basically it doesn't release much of the CO2 if it just sits there (http://www.awc.org/pdf/education/gb/ReThinkMag-GB500A-EvaluatingCarbonFootprint-1511.pdf http://www.awc.org/pdf/education/gb/ReThinkMag-GB500A-Evalua...). And it takes far less energy to grow a tree than the respective amount of concrete/other building materials (http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/new-study-confirms-switching-wood-construction-concrete-or-steel-reduces-co2-emissions.html http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/new-study-confi...). So wood->building materials is a great option. Right on!