You can make charcoal from it which generates some heat from burning but doesn’t release near as much of the carbon. Then you can treat the charcoal to make ter

You can make charcoal from it which generates some heat from burning but doesn’t release near as much of the carbon. Then you can treat the charcoal to make terra preta, which is a soil additive that lasts centuries and encourages soil formation and carbon retention itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta