Re:Atmospheric carbon dioxide passes 400ppm
by 7952 on Thursday September 29, 2016 @06:29PM
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Or just use the wood to build things! Has the added benefit of reducing the use of carbon intensive materials like concrete and steel.
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Re:Atmospheric carbon dioxide passes 400ppm
by labster on Thursday September 29, 2016 @07:28PM
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Good idea. Now tell me how you plan to offset the carbon emissions from land use change... You weren't planning on building dense housing with wood, were you?
Re:Atmospheric carbon dioxide passes 400ppm
by hinkley on Thursday September 29, 2016 @07:51PM
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There's a group doing that.
They can make some pretty impressive engineered beams these days. The fire intensity required to destroy them, they claim, also structurally damages concrete, so it's not the issue most of us take it to be.
Re:Atmospheric carbon dioxide passes 400ppm
by 7952 on Friday September 30, 2016 @09:44AM
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The presumotion is that the land would have changed anyway, just in a more carbon intesnive way. Of course "burying it" would seem to require some carbon outputs, and a temporary land use change. What do you think that would be sustainable?