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But those two things are not the same. They are aiming to sustain flight while not putting more carbon into the atmosphere. Burying plants will maybe put carbon
by avgcorrection 4y ago
But those two things are not the same. They are aiming to sustain flight while not putting more carbon into the atmosphere. Burying plants will maybe put carbon out of the Cycle but it won’t help you fly.
- WalterBright 4y agoYes, they are exactly the same. The exact same amount of CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere. The exact same amount of CO2 is in the ground.
- sokoloff 4y agoPeople are evidently reading your original post far too quickly and skipping right over the “Bury plants with an equivalent amount of C.” step.
- avgcorrection 4y agoNo, we saw that non sequitur.
- sokoloff 4y agoHow is it a non-sequitur? Take summer 2022 CO2 into plants and bury them in an anaerobic environment. Burn Jet-A in carbon-equal amounts. I don’t see an obvious way that that’s not carbon-neutral.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoIronically, I'm a big fan of this concept of "offsetting" carbon emissions. It's a really useful, market based mechanism for tackling climate change, like carbon taxes. Like every other thing that would make it easy to phase out fossil fuels, it's been relentlessly attacked though, and so people generally have been trained to hate it. Of course, burying plants isn't the cheapest or best way to offset carbon emissions. And if airlines used cheaper, more effective offsets, they'd be attacked as "not really helping". And they do, and they have been. So basically, you can't win, fossil fuel propaganda just has too much money behind it for us to do the obvious and easy stuff, and instead we'll have to slowly crawl towards a solution, pointlessly wasting money and killing people all along the way.