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I guess you need to plant X trees, wait Y years for them to accumulate Z carbon and then bury all the trees M meters underground to stay there forever.
by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
I guess you need to plant X trees, wait Y years for them to accumulate Z carbon and then bury all the trees M meters underground to stay there forever.
- datameta 5y agoA forest will only grow as a carbon sink on the century timescale, which is the window in which we irreversibly enter headlong into the anthropocene or mitigate our global anthopogenic effects. We don't have to plan for burying them.
- thatcat 5y agoThat's incorrect, if you look into regenerative agriculture you'll see that soil carbon content can be increased from 1 to 8 percent in less than a decade. Carbon sequestration isn't just from biomass above the soil, it also occurs through carbohydrate transfer to microbes and as a result of the increase in microbial biomass in soils.
- datameta 5y agoYou're right in pointing this out. What I am saying is that we do not need to deliberately bury biomass. The forest ecosystem is not just the trees.
- BurningFrog 5y ago"Forever" is over ambitious. I'd pile them up in some desert. Should last a few centuries.
- dntrkv 5y agoUntil they catch fire and release that CO2 right back into the atmosphere. We’ve seen this happen with carbon capture programs already.