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Re:Carbon Removal Technologies by thinkling on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:21PM (#18296515)
Around here, tree farms replant by hiring people who plant hundreds to thousands trees per day per person and are paid for piece-work, a fraction of a dollar (~$0.20?) per treelet planted.

Given that you need to do this once every 25-40 years (maturity cycle of the tree), is doing it with drones really that big a win?

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Re:Carbon Removal Technologies by aoner on Thursday October 25, 2018 @03:22AM (#18299095)
I'm also not sure how much of a big win the drones are. Proper forest management is probably way more important. So protecting against illegal logging and making sure that whenever trees are almost dying to take them out so that they don't rot and replant a new one.
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