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 duckymcduckface on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:52PM (#20595554)

Makes me wonder if in the future the solution will be to create synthetic crude and pump it back into the ground.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by tim333 on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:56PM (#20595591)

Or just:

>Once the trees reach maturity, farmers harvest their wood for use in houses or musical instruments

as in the article. You could make chunky log cabin type buildings to use more. I'd quite like a log mansion.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by plutonorm on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:46PM (#20596002)

Maybe this is where the oil came from In the first place. A desperate attempt to dump co2 by a doomed civilisation in the deep past. Obviously not, but could make a good short story :)

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by marcusverus on Saturday August 03, 2019 @04:26PM (#20602475)

It definitely seems like the ideal solution is bacterial sequestration of carbon into some inert, non-toxic, storable chemical.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by youngtaff on Saturday August 03, 2019 @04:44AM (#20599344)

Make charcoal and then bury it

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