happy_hawking t1_j5717ze wrote
There is a carbon capture technology that works flawlessly since thousands of years: trees. Awesome, isn't it?
94746382926 t1_j5774vw wrote
Trees can buy some time but they're not a permanent solution unfortunately. When they die all that carbon gets released back into the atmosphere.
bnogal t1_j58iil8 wrote
You just need to use that trees later on.
Build CLT structures per example. Fornitures.
They could easily reduce taxes for CLT material and sustainable wood fornitures. So we store that trees for longer.
94746382926 t1_j599th7 wrote
Yeah I forgot you could do this, whoops!
RaffiaWorkBase t1_j57d72d wrote
>When they die all that carbon gets released back into the atmosphere
This is not true.
>Trees can buy some time but they're not a permanent solution unfortunately.
This is absolutely true of CCS technologies.
civilrunner t1_j58lc0z wrote
We literally just have to bury it and refill the oil wells and then cap them. We can do that with anything that grabs carbon from the atmosphere whether it be trees or direct air capture technology.
94746382926 t1_j599shx wrote
Yeah I forgot you could bury them or use them in construction. My bad.
Ralph_Baric_PhD t1_j58yhuq wrote
Empty wells should be used as bioreactors for new methane production, filled with human landfill waste of any kind including plastics all shredded and a starter culture added. Apply temperature and pressure. Not so long later you have feed stocks to remake all that previously fixed carbon.
ItsAConspiracy t1_j57f7km wrote
Yeah they probably never thought of...oh wait, from the article:
> Currently, the vast majority of CDR uses conventional methods, managing land so that it absorbs and stores atmospheric carbon dioxide — for example by planting trees, restoring damaged forests or replenishing soil so that it stores more carbon.
(CDR is "carbon dioxide removal.")
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