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Re:Farmers rushed into hemp, but now face a glut by ajross on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @12:01PM (#21694123)
Sequestration remains an open problem. There are no large scale biomass capture projects in operation. But the science isn't hard: you bury it, basically. Or if you want to be fancy you burn it for biomass energy and capture the resulting CO2 for fancier sequestration techniques. Both are expensive, and no one is willing to foot the bill.

Right now the only realistic way to use photosynthesis to capture CO2 in a long term way is to plant a forest. There's some amount of this going on, though not enough to even cover deforestation elsewhere.

Re:Farmers rushed into hemp, but now face a glut by Taniwha on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @03:46PM (#21696527)
We need to start throwing our old newspapers down coal mines (or bury it) rather than recycling it - that will encourage more trees to be grown and solid paper is a great way to sequester carbon
Re:Farmers rushed into hemp, but now face a glut by logfromblammo on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @02:07PM (#21695475)
If you want to be really fancy, you only partially burn it to make biochar, soak that in urea, and use that to make terra preta.