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Yea that's what I mean. It seems that cheap fast growing timber can be purchased for $20 per tonne. Dry timber is about 50% carbon and CO2 is about 30% carbon,
by 6nf 8y ago
Yea that's what I mean. It seems that cheap fast growing timber can be purchased for $20 per tonne. Dry timber is about 50% carbon and CO2 is about 30% carbon, so that means we can grow CO2 out of the atmosphere at a price of around $12 a tonne. We'll need to stack the wood somewhere but I don't think that will be terribly expensive.
- hodgesrm 8y agoThe problem we're seeing in the US West is that wood has an increasing tendency to burn up. For this to work at least where I live we need to reforest using species that grow fast and are also relatively fire-resistant. It seems people have been thinking of the fire-resistant part for a while: http://blog.davey.com/2017/08/fireproof-landscapes-with-fire-resistant-plants-trees-and-shrubs/ http://blog.davey.com/2017/08/fireproof-landscapes-with-fire....