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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by LeoPanthera on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:46PM (#20594989)
It turns into wood! It's actually pretty amazing. I always though the physical substance of wood came out of the ground, through the roots, but in fact wood is made almost exclusively out of air. Trees are frozen air.
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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by beat on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:01PM (#20595141)
As an aside, that's also how we lose weight! When we burn away fat, we breathe it out.
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