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Re:A new carbon capture plant will pull 36k tons of CO2 from... by adgjlsfhk1 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:54PM (#31926692)
trees don't draw carbon in the long term. after a few hundred years they decay. also the earth is already near maximum tree capacity.
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Re:A new carbon capture plant will pull 36k tons of CO2 from... by Gigachad on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @07:00PM (#31926780)
Sounds like we need to cut the trees down, bury them deep underground and plant new ones.
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Re:A new carbon capture plant will pull 36k tons of CO2 from... by kbelder on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:46PM (#31927873)
They did, and kept it out of the atmosphere for hundreds of millions of years.
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Re:A new carbon capture plant will pull 36k tons of CO2 from... by jjtheblunt on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @07:00PM (#31926778)
> also the earth is already near maximum tree capacity.

citation?

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