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"Ecosia’s operation leaves a negative CO2 footprint on the world – their servers operate on 100% renewable energy and each tree that they plant removes 1 KG of
by JshWright 8y ago
"Ecosia’s operation leaves a negative CO2 footprint on the world – their servers operate on 100% renewable energy and each tree that they plant removes 1 KG of CO2 from the atmosphere.?
Only 1kg? Most of a tree's "dry" mass is carbon, it gets that carbon from the atmosphere, and most trees weigh more than 1kg...
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- Gasp0de 8y agoI assume these are not trees that are planted and then left to grow forever, but probably the trees are harvested at some point. Go ahead and write them an Email, asking how they got that 1kg figure.
- Gasp0de 8y agoI actually went ahead and looked it up for you: "And that’s not all. Since we use our profits to plant trees, every search with Ecosia actually removes approximately 1 kg of CO2 from the atmosphere. How? On average, it takes around 50 searches to finance the planting of a new tree. An average tree planted by Ecosia will remove around 50 kg of CO2 from the air during its lifetime."
- proto-n 8y agoYeah, but after the tree dies and while it decomposes, AFAIK, most of that carbon goes right back into the air. So replanting trees doesn't really have CO2-negative effect. Having more forest area keeps more carbon down as long as the forest lives. However, if you want to actually get rid of the carbon permanently, you'll have to bury it. Maybe 1kg per tree reflects some kind of average of these 2? But I'm not an expert in this topic (not even very knowledgeable) so someone please confirm or correct me!