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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by tim333 on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:03PM (#20595659)
It might be done quite quickly with a proper carbon pricing regime. The UK carbon price is about £35/ton. Times 104 tons/acre is about £3500/acre which is probably enough to make a profit. Then just get VC funding for your carbon startup and off it goes.

There are political and practical difficulties doing that but there are also difficulties with wrecking the climate that might outweigh those.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by Merg on Saturday August 03, 2019 @04:10AM (#20599232)
It is basically in progress by largest forest owner in Poland - state company to be exact.

It is called Carbon Forest Sylviculture (Leśne Gospodarstwo Węglowe). Over all it is more of a marketing scheme with very small impact. We tried to increase sequestration rates with correct sylvicultural regimes.

Currently it is more like a way for companies to sound ecological. IDK if it can be profitable, remember land and everything cost and I think those profit margins would be very small.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by hef19898 on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:24PM (#20595814)
Might be a worthwhile start-up idea... I'm wondering...
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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by markdown on Friday August 02, 2019 @08:16PM (#20597763)
https://worldtree.info/paulownia-scam/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-17/timber-investment-sch...

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by tim333 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @05:46AM (#20599530)
Ah. To summarise those some previous companies, Timbercorp and Great Southern pushed planting similar trees as a get rich quick thing and then went bust leaving useless trees and a lot of people with large losses. World Tree, featured in the Bloomberg article say they are different and do it better. I guess it's a tricky business to do well.
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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by anakaine on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:39PM (#20597244)
I'm in.
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