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Trees are for chumps. People should be planting grasses, and bamboo in particular. The larger bamboo species grow faster than any tree, and can be exploited b
by logfromblammo 9y ago
Trees are for chumps. People should be planting grasses, and bamboo in particular.
The larger bamboo species grow faster than any tree, and can be exploited by the human economy on a shorter timescale, thus making people more likely to plant bamboo forests on their own initiative.
Grow bamboo. Cut it down. Use it for building and consumer products, such that its carbon content does not quickly return to the atmosphere as CO2 (and hopefully never as methane).
- lutorm 9y agoThe key is phrase is "... such that its carbon content does not quickly return to the atmosphere". Growing grasses for biofuel wouldn't help.
- bluGill 9y agoGrowing grass for biofuel can help: if you burn just the hydrogen and not the carbon you can then sequester that carbon. It is called making charcoal. Pulling the above off in an energy positive way is left as an exercise to the reader. (read I am not sure you can, but I wish you would)
- carapace 9y agoBamboo can be used to make biochar and then buried, sequesters carbon and enriches the soil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar