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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by ska on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:35PM (#20595905)
> Or burning for energy production

Doesn't that just release the C02 again? Construction purposes might help, or any other way of sequestering.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by ac29 on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:13PM (#20596698)
Yes, but its net-zero carbon, so still an improvement over using fossil fuels.
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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by robocat on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:05PM (#20597021)
Net-zero CO2.

Probably other factors are small, but hard to predict (particulates, volatile chemicals, other effects of growth). Might be positive or negative.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by ska on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:56PM (#20617323)
Fair, so that implies it doesn't really help, but at least isn't actively making things worse.
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