• tiedigger@fedinsfw.app
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    3 days ago

    That will not work. Because Forrests only store CO2 but won’t remove it, you have to add more forest areas. Currently the store around 900 gigatons of CO2 and occupy 30% of the land mass. We produce about 33gigatons of CO2 each year (this is just a emission btw the real number through land change etc is higher) which means we would need to plant trees on 1% of earth each year, which is not sustainable for more than 50 years.

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      3 days ago

      It will work. You just ignored the second part, “and not burn stuff”. We need to stop producing, and reforest everything that can be.

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        2 days ago

        That!
        Plant trees and other plants that capture carbon and can be turned into charcoal.
        Bury the charcoal and remove the carbon from the cycle for a long time.
        Rinse and repeat.

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        2 days ago

        It will not work because it doesn’t matter if you burn it or not. If you don’t burn it, the CO2 will be released regardless because the wood will decompost in 10-50 years.

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          2 days ago

          No babes, you don’t burn the oil. Yes, dead trees decompose, but that turns into new trees. Increasing the forest lowers the carbon in the atmosphere, full stop.

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            2 days ago

            Which gets us back to my argument that you have to increase the used landmass for forests by 1% per year yeah which means after 50 years the earth is full of forests, which is unsustainable. You are nearly there

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        2 days ago

        Yeah it is stored in the living tree the moment the tree dies it will be released back into the atmosphere by decomposing.

        Further I already use niced up numbers in favour of trees there because I use forests not trees and forests save half their carbon in the soil

        Removing would be that it is removed out of the carbon cycle but that isn’t happening here the carbon cycle storage is just higher.

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            1 day ago

            It doesn’t it is around 50 years in use and often it is nearly impossible to find wooden artifacts after 1000 years. In rare cases like the Kalambo structure it is more.

            You would need structures akin to nuclear waste storage to seal all dead trees away, which would be a lot of space and money you have to spend. And then it would still not be forever.