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You have 1000 tons of green wood, which contains 400 tons of carbon. Should you bury it, and sequester all the carbon, or BECCS it, emitting maybe 50 tons of t
by sbierwagen 7y ago
You have 1000 tons of green wood, which contains 400 tons of carbon.
Should you bury it, and sequester all the carbon, or BECCS it, emitting maybe 50 tons of that carbon back into the atmosphere, which you will eventually have to spend more money to capture again?
Burying wood costs money, and doesn't produce anything useful. BECCS produces some electricity, but that electricity is so expensive there's only a handful of pilot plants in the entire world. Which is better?