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 egdod on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:36PM (#20595439)

Presumably you don’t have to harvest and replant them every year though. I’m guessing it takes them several years to get to the point that they’re full grown.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by __sy__ on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:38PM (#20595452)

Sure, but there's also got to be some sort of diminishing return.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by egdod on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:04PM (#20595661)

Definitely. We’d have to do something with all the trees every few years or whatever.

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