Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ...
by CyanBird on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:53PM
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That's exactly what they say in the article, if you cut the tree down, another will grow from the stump, they are quite literally grass-trees
And yeah, this is actually a huge bonus for carbon capture!
Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ...
by nashashmi on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:10PM
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Then it will be great to constantly log them down and sell them as carbon credit.
Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ...
by tylerhou on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:27PM
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To sell them as carbon credits, you’d have to bury the logs or something — otherwise they might burn, or their mass would be absorbed by other animals/fungi/bacteria which would eventually convert the carbon into CO2.
Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ...
by LeoPanthera on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:05PM
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I beleive the traditional solution is to turn them into furniture. Or houses! Building with farmed wood is very eco friendly since it produces a negative amount of CO2.
Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ...
by bufferoverflow on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:10PM
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That just delays the CO2 release. Furniture breaks. Houses get old and get demolished. Even if it takes 100 or 500 years, it will happen.
You need to store wood long-term somehow. Or burn it and store CO2 underground, turning it into rock.
If you're trying to do carbon capture, maybe this is a feature? Assume you mean that literally, and you can just chop one down and another will grow in its place, that's pretty great, since trees only capture carbon when they are growing.