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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by radicalbyte on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:03PM (#20595158)
The easiest thing to do is to burn it into biochar and then either bury that or use it as a fertilizer on fields where it will get taken up in the soil.

There are some active land management techniques which do something similar with shrubs/plants/grasses which generate an enormous amount of soil and therefore trap a lot of carbon.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by dlazar on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:32PM (#20595395)
Interesting, I hadn't realized pyrolysis (used to produce biochar) does not release CO2. Seeing "pyro" (Greek for "fire") I had assumed oxidation. Sounds like a good technique for making the wood "indigestible" for microorganisms. I wonder if it's worth doing energywise, compared with just burying it somewhere.
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