Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by ginko on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @10:16AM (#20565008)

I guess another option would be to shred the wood and dump it in wasteland to compost it. Considering we have a huge problem with soil erosion, this might be a viable way to regain some of it.

There was this experiment with just dumping 12000 tonnes of orange peel a while ago that turned out to be a huge success: https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-ora...

Maybe something like this can also work with wood, although it might take a bit longer to compost.

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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by ryanmercer on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @02:11PM (#20576781)

Hmmm, this makes me wonder how much of the carbon petrified wood retains and if there isn't some method where the process might be accelerated (without a lot of energy input, a quick google shows you can do it rapidly using a heated chamber but that's going to be counterproductive and require an absurd amount of energy).

Although, maybe you could use concentrated solar or even geothermal for the heating part. Hell, you could probably make it profitable selling the petrified wood for use in construction (mantles, counter tops, tile). If it retains a decent amount of the carbon.

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