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No idea of the species, but fullgrown they might be 10-50 tons. Maybe 20% of the tree is carbon by weight, so 2-10 tons per tree. So, maybe 2-10bn tons of carbo
by sliverstorm 9y ago
No idea of the species, but fullgrown they might be 10-50 tons. Maybe 20% of the tree is carbon by weight, so 2-10 tons per tree. So, maybe 2-10bn tons of carbon when they are grown?
The good news is that's a lot. The bad news is the yearly carbon production of just the American car fleet is only an order of magnitude or two lower.