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When you bury plants, they decay and release their carbon as CO2 back into the atmosphere within a couple of years. Reliably sequestering CO2 by burying plants
by adwn 4y ago
When you bury plants, they decay and release their carbon as CO2 back into the atmosphere within a couple of years. Reliably sequestering CO2 by burying plants is difficult and inefficient. In addition, converting crude oil to jet fuel is also very energy-intensive; the energy required typically comes from fossil fuel sources, so you'd be releasing much more fossil carbon into the atmosphere than just what is burned in the jet turbines.
- WalterBright 4y ago> so you'd be releasing much more fossil carbon into the atmosphere than just what is burned in the jet turbines The energy efficiency of refining jet fuel is 95.3%. Google "energy efficiency of refining jet fuel" Who knows what the energy efficiency of refining plants into jet fuel is, but I bet it's a lot less than 95.3%. The article doesn't cite what it is.