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Remove carbon from the atmosphere through reforestation
- stevespang 5y agoRather obvious idea, until you get drought, and then "matchstick" forests of dried out trees, then forest fires, which release enormous amounts of combustion products into the atmosphere, not just CO2, but benzaldehyde, formaldehyde, particulates, all kinds of nasties. I love trees, but why not farm saline algae which grows at an astounding rate compared to trees, with the protein genome of duckweeds inserted into the genome ? Extract the protein, feed the world, bury the dried carbon rich byproduct in the desert under sand where it is much less susceptible to combustion . . .
- besnn00 5y agoA company that’s fueling the scam of “carbon offset”. Since when does buying carbon credits make it ok for large companies to say their net pollution is zero?
- avmich 5y agoThe goal of carbon credits is to produce resources which are spent on reducing carbon in atmosphere. Reduction could happen either by polluting less, or extracting carbon from atmosphere more. A cement plant can keep polluting, but will have to pay for pollutions, put that into costs and face market pressure. It can employ modern technologies, allowing to pollute less, which will make the product cheaper to sell. Or it may pay somebody to pull some carbon from atmosphere, in the form of newly planted forests. If those forests pull as much carbon from air as it gets there from forests "owners", those owners integral carbon impact is zero. Of course, it depends on many factors - how efficient the process is, how much credits were bought etc. - but those credits clearly intended to reduce the amount of carbon in the air.