Elon Musk’s $100M Gigaton Scale Carbon Removal Prize

Re:Elon Musk’s $100M Gigaton Scale Carbon Removal Prize by ralphlyons on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:12AM (#26077058)

If there are a billion people in the world able to plant trees, that's a 1000 trees each. That's about 10-20 days of work per person (I have planted about 50 trees in half a day once). You're right, this would be easy.

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Re:Elon Musk’s $100M Gigaton Scale Carbon Removal Prize by manquer on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:09AM (#26079147)

You will need land which don't encroach on agriculture or other industrial use land. Land which gets enough rainfall every year. Also planting is just one step in the process , you will need to maintain it, if the trees actually have to grow.

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Re:Elon Musk’s $100M Gigaton Scale Carbon Removal Prize by bratcomplex on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:20PM (#26092018)

tree planting ≠ forest planting. But on that notion a “productive” artificial forest solves this issue. build forest with plants that provide utility. But are family to the local environment. it’s a concept that has been proven

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Re:Elon Musk’s $100M Gigaton Scale Carbon Removal Prize by collyw on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:49AM (#26079627)

It's not as if we haven't managed to automate agriculture with machinery before.

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