Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws
by snarf21 on Monday September 30, 2024 @08:40AM
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Serious question (I'm not a biologist): How did the nitrogen, etc. get released when the plant material (that became oil) first died and got buried? Is this fundamentally different?
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Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws
by Filligree on Monday September 30, 2024 @10:02AM
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It gets consumed and released by detrivores, i.e. fungus. This takes a long time, and wouldn’t work nearly as well these days because the fungus would eat the cellulose as well.