Website review: Put The Trees In The Ground: A Fix ...
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•4 reviews since May 13, 2008
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teslacoil rated 8 weeks ago- I saw a similar (in concept) presentation at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting and though the guy was a bit nuts when he suggested using helicopters to move trees into pits. (As I wrote, there are a lot of issues with this...)
- isatcjk rated 8 weeks ago
- This is stupid. Building houses with the wood or whatnot will capture the carbon just as well as burying it...and the poor get a better place to live. From the page: "The only possible way to bind sufficiently large quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere is photosynthesis. However, the resulting biomass cannot be burned or composted, because this would release the bound CO2. The trick will be to make the biomass "disappear". Scholz recommends planting forests whose wood will subsequently be buried. Possible burial sites include open brown coal pits or other surface mines. These should be filled with wood and covered with soil. Cut off from the air in this manner, the wood would not change, even over long periods. It could in principle be dug up in the future and used."
- Ausearth rated 8 weeks ago
- put the carbon in the ground. buries it.
- anneliese rated 8 weeks ago
- From the page: "Of the current global environmental problems, the excessive release of carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels and the related global warming is one of the most pressing. In an essay in the journal ChemSusChem , Fritz Scholz and Ulrich Hasse from the University of Greifswald introduce a possible approach to a solution: deliberately planted forests bind the CO2 through photosynthesis and are then removed from the global CO2 cycle by burial. "For the first time, humankind will give something back to nature that we have taken away before," says Scholz." And there are many other benefits to having trees around.
