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> "Can I remove CO2 from the air and turn it into something valuable faster than a tree?" In some climate zones, grasslands do it better than forests. https:/
by sampo 2y ago
> "Can I remove CO2 from the air and turn it into something valuable faster than a tree?"
In some climate zones, grasslands do it better than forests.
https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/grasslands-more-reliable-carbon-sink-than-trees https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/grasslands-mo...
- criddell 2y agoA tree gives you wood. What are the valuable outputs of grasslands?
- Kostic 2y agoChernozem.
- thechao 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem
- lupusreal 2y agoDoes bamboo count?
- criddell 2y agoMaybe. I know it actually is grass, but are bamboo growths called grasslands?
- nostromo 2y agoYou can make it into a carbon-neutral heating fuel. You can make paper products including things like cardboard and packaging. You can put livestock on it and produce meat. Or if you just want to sequester carbon, you can harvest it and bury it deep in the ground.
- sampo 2y ago> What are the valuable outputs of grasslands? If you use grasslands for grazing cattle you get meat, or also wool with sheep. Sequestering carbon into grassland soil (or into any soil, really) makes them better at absorbing and retaining rainwater, reducing the risks of catastrophic floods in the watershed area.
- criddell 2y agoGood points. I wasn't thinking of second order products.
- Tyr42 2y agoCows?
- undersuit 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose#Commercial_applications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose#Commercial_applicati...
- marcosdumay 2y agoGrass always do it better than trees. And the GP is quite wrong, because almost everything will be more efficient than trees or grass. Machines are just way more expensive, that's why nobody ever made them.
- newsclues 2y agoWhat is smarter, spending years researching and arguing the best way to do this, or using the natural process all over, and adapting the best practice locally, to try to solve climate change? Some places can plant trees, others grasslands. Or whatever, but it seems like there is a lot of money to create an industrial process that can be commercialized instead of just doing the work naturally...