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Re:Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and pla... by ajnin on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:20PM (#28949616)
Yes, that's why planting trees to offset carbon emissions is not really as good an idea as it seems, trees can live a long time but they're not immortal, and when they die they release their carbon back into the environment.
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Re:Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and pla... by pxndx on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:47PM (#28949948)
If you turn what now is barren land or grasslands into a forest, it absorbs CO2 as it grows, and that CO2 stays captured for as long as that land is a forest, it doesn't matter if individual trees die and decompose.
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Re:Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and pla... by robotresearcher on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:41PM (#28949860)
If you leave them alone to make baby trees, they can be an amortized constant capture or better.

Meanwhile they liberate oxygen, which I enjoy daily.

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