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 LeoPanthera on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:05PM (#20597956)

I beleive the traditional solution is to turn them into furniture. Or houses! Building with farmed wood is very eco friendly since it produces a negative amount of CO2.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by bufferoverflow on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:10PM (#20598201)

That just delays the CO2 release. Furniture breaks. Houses get old and get demolished. Even if it takes 100 or 500 years, it will happen.

You need to store wood long-term somehow. Or burn it and store CO2 underground, turning it into rock.

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by kpennell on Saturday August 03, 2019 @06:07PM (#20602999)

True. But if we could buy a couple hundred years, that would be amazing with the timescales we're looking at now.

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