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No; petrified wood is the same as other fossils: it is minerals, such as silica, which has filled in the void in the earth left after the organic material has d
by saalweachter 8y ago
No; petrified wood is the same as other fossils: it is minerals, such as silica, which has filled in the void in the earth left after the organic material has decayed.
You can still bury the wood in an environment that does not allow it to (quickly) decay, or you can simply make a lot of stuff out of wood. (If you go the second route, you'll want to ensure that your wood structures last a long time, you'll want to increase the total wood sitting around in the world, and once you reach a new plateau in the amount of wood products in semi-permanent existence, you'll stop sequestering new CO2 via the process of consumerism, new products and structures will just be re-sequestering the carbon lost from old structures and products as they decay or are destroyed.)
- int_19h 8y agoHow long they decay wouldn't matter that much if you have the disposal process. The amount you'd end up processing every year would still be the same (reflecting total usage at any given isntant) once you get past the initial ramp-up.
- saalweachter 8y agoThe duration is important because you can only grow and harvest a finite amount of wood each year, because trees can only grow so fast. So if you harvest the maximum amount of wood possible each year, W, and it lasts for 10 years, you have sequestered 10 x W units of carbon; if you use it in ways that lasts 20 years before it needs to be replaced, you have sequestered 20 x W units of carbon.