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> chop them down then sequester them geologically somehow to actually make a carbon sink. And I suspect if you did that at vast scales, you'd soon start runnin
by londons_explore 3y ago
> chop them down then sequester them geologically somehow to actually make a carbon sink.
And I suspect if you did that at vast scales, you'd soon start running out of other elements like phosphorus that trees need to grow.
- bluGill 3y agoCharcoal doesn't really decay and leaves the soil fertile. So it seems like it should work. Making charcoal is a lot of pollution though.
- londons_explore 3y ago> Charcoal doesn't really decay I've often wondered why not... Charcoal must have existed for millennia, and is effectively 'free energy', yet no bacteria have learned how to break it down.