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How does that help clear the excess biomass produced by farming? The primary problem this solves isn't "carbon capture". It's great that it does, and it's what
by TheRealPomax 4y ago
How does that help clear the excess biomass produced by farming? The primary problem this solves isn't "carbon capture". It's great that it does, and it's what distinguishes it from other solutions in the same primary business: to help deal with the problem of harvest "waste".
You can buy oil and pump it back in the ground, but now you still need to solve the farming problem.
- seunosewa 4y agoCorn and wheat post-harvest biomass is usually tilled into the ground to improve organic matter in the soil and return nutrients to the soil, or fed to cows and other ruminants by grazing or by cutting.
- pinot 4y agoThe point is to take carbon out of the cycle. Not mining petroleum would of course have the same effect but good luck getting people to do that.
- seunosewa 4y agoIn both cases you're burying a product of photosynthesis that would have been converted back to carbon dioxide through combustion or respiration. You're taking carbon out of the cycle. It doesn't matter whether the carbon was fixed millions of years ago or a couple of months ago. Carbon is carbon.
- TheRealPomax 4y agoFunny how oil and corn aren't just carbon though. Almost as if thinking in terms of CO2 only is intentionally ignoring the actual fuels involved.