https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_...

equipment to their bioethanol factories.

(me, for that class I was the obligatory cornucopian engineer because it's in the freaking engineering school and somebody had to do it)

My partner had spent a lot of time in the Amazon on research projects where they would measure the amount of carbon being captured by trees over time by taking careful measurements with calipers, core samples, etc. He took me to a lecture by an invited professor who showed us videos of how clouds moved over the Amazon. Unlike most places where rain mainly falls and makes it to the ocean, water evaporates and condenses multiple times over the Amazon and creates clouds that carry moisture in various directions including helping mountains in California to develop a snowpack.

There's particular a concern that that the boundary between the Amazon on the southwest side could migrate to the north because of a feedback between land use and climate and that's a reason to be concerned about the land use in that area, not just trees getting cut down.

The night before our debate one of my partner's friends tried to intervene in a fight in a bar and got stabbed and my partner wound up going up to Syracuse in an ambulance with his friend so I had to present both sides of the case.