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No, the carbon is released when the plants die. So you’re only holding the carbon for the lifetime of the plant. Even if the plants are “net new”, their CO2 wil
by rcme 4y ago
No, the carbon is released when the plants die. So you’re only holding the carbon for the lifetime of the plant. Even if the plants are “net new”, their CO2 will still be released when they die.
- cortesoft 4y agoIsn't it actually released when the plant decomposes? So if you stored the plant matter after death it would keep it sequestered?
- rcme 4y agoYes you could do that, but that sounds more like farming. Additionally, you should only get the carbon credit once you actually sequester the kelp, but this isn’t don’t in practice. E.g. some managed forests get carbon credits for trees that they plant, but sometimes those trees burn in a forest fire before they can be sequestered.
- thatcat 4y agoThat's a poor accounting of carbon fluxes
- ddeck 4y agoIf you grow a new forest in an area that was previously empty of biomass (not necessarily an easy thing to do), the trees don't all grow and then die and decompose with nothing to replace them. Trees die, decompose, and others take their place. So long as the forest survives, the trees in that forest at any particular time are a net carbon sink.
- kortilla 4y ago> No, the carbon is released when the plants die Thank you for repeating exactly what I said? Anyway, it’s not “net new” if it’s not reproducing on average with >=1 offspring per its life.