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Re:Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and pla... by djrogers on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:51PM (#28949989)
The big advantage to wood though, is that while it's growing it's a carbon sink, and once hardened that carbon is likely stored forever.
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Re:Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and pla... by korantu on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:46PM (#28950632)
you can achieve the same effect by making plastic with captured co2 [1]. Carbon would stay in plastic for very long time.

This way you get to reuse all the (enormous) existing infrastructure, as well.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/9/5/759/pdf

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