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An interesting idea I had. Obviously it’s destructive but maybe still a net win? Go through every forest on earth and cut down every third tree and sequester i
by mrfusion 8y ago
An interesting idea I had. Obviously it’s destructive but maybe still a net win?
Go through every forest on earth and cut down every third tree and sequester it so it won’t decompose and release the carbon. Then the forest rengerates itself and pulls all that carbon out of the atmosphere.
Or an idea for a billionaire. Buy out the entire worlds annual output of lumber and sequester it.
- riffraff 8y agoThe tree grows anyway, plausibly at a faster rate than a small one (slower proportionally,but more in absolute volume) while keeping the existing volume sequestered, so cutting it down does not seem effective. You could dump vegetables or corn in a hole though, but I've read that's not a cost effective solution either.
- mrfusion 8y agoI heard forests were carbon neutral since old trees die and decompose and then new ones replace them.