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When plants remove CO2 and release O2, they have to do something with that carbon atom. They can use it to make sap or fruit, but mostly they use it to build mo
by IvyMike 2y ago
When plants remove CO2 and release O2, they have to do something with that carbon atom. They can use it to make sap or fruit, but mostly they use it to build more plant.
A plant that isn't growing, like, a LOT, can't possibly be removing much CO2.
- BurningFrog 2y agoMost of a tree is CO₂ that the plant has taken out of thin air. This only clicked for me when I started wondering why you never have to refill the soil for a houseplant even when it grows.
- teh_infallible 2y agoRichard Feynman talked about this in his talk about “What is Fire?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE
- somenameforme 2y agoThe soil itself is also storing CO2, in a variety of different less than intuitive processes. The most obvious is when parts of the plant die and breakdown into the soil itself.