Re:Some progress on CO2 sequestration technologies
by dclusin on Saturday July 27, 2019 @05:20PM
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Has anyone done the calculation about how much landmass with trees it would take to reverse the CO2 pollution in a reasonable time frame (<100 yrs? <50 yrs?)? It seems like the square mileage would probably be quite large and possibly encroach on land that we need to devote farming to feed the growing population. This is entirely baseless speculation, I haven't done much research into this.
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Re:Some progress on CO2 sequestration technologies
by avip on Saturday July 27, 2019 @06:17PM
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Yes. Many people had done so. This is covered in details in
https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/land-use/afforestation
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-cou...
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/76
and in many similar research papers.
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