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A comment on Microsoft’s Remarkably Big Bet on Carbon-Absorbing Rocks. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft’s Remarkably Big Bet on Carbon-Absorbing Rocks by Aloha on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:58PM (#37436201)
Maybe we can plant fields of new coal to be found in a million years ;-)
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Re:Microsoft’s Remarkably Big Bet on Carbon-Absorbing Rocks by jgilias on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:17PM (#37436461)
Apparently we can’t. That worked because there were no bacteria that’d consume the biomass and release CO2 back then.
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Re:Microsoft’s Remarkably Big Bet on Carbon-Absorbing Rocks by Aloha on Friday September 08, 2023 @02:11PM (#37437226)
If its deep enough underground, the conditions favorable to that bacteria may not exist.
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