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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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