Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per acre

Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by ksec on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:50PM (#20595031)

I thought Bamboo was the fastest growing tree? I remember it grows more than an inch every hour. Since no one has done mass planting of Bamboo, there must be some down fall that wasn't well known?

Edit: Turns out Bamboo is classified as plant. But the question remains the same.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by pier25 on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:18PM (#20595276)

> Bamboo’s carbon sequestration properties have been studied in countries where it naturally forms wild forests, such as Mexico (Castañeda, 2006) and China (Song, 2011). Contributing to these efforts, Ricardo Rojas Quiroga—an environmental engineering student at the Universidad Nuestra Señora de La Paz—studied Guadua angustifolia, a species of bamboo that grows in the Carrasco National Park of Bolivia. He measured the density and masses of bamboo plants in the forest, estimating the amount of carbon stored per hectare. Rojas concluded that, in addition to forming part of one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, each hectare of the bamboo forest of Carrasco National Park stores levels of carbon comparable to some large tree species such as Chinese fir and oak. This finding is consistent with that of many previous studies, a review of which can be found in this 2010 report by INBAR.

https://matteroftrust.org/what-can-bamboo-do-about-co2/

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by EquallyJust on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:59PM (#20595122)

Don't know too much about this but I can speculate.

Bamboo is hollow so probably doesn't capture as much carbon compared to a solid tree. You can also use the wood from trees in a lot more places than bamboo.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by nielsole on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:57PM (#20595107)

Maybe because they are hollow they can store relatively little considered their height?

Also: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/160324-bambo...

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by bumby on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:57PM (#20595101)

I think you mean classified as a grass

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