You gotta sequester the carbon by harvesting the trees and then either building stuff with them or burying/sinking them in anaerobic conditions so they can’t decompose.
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Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoPlants and trees are carbon neutral. They release the carbon when they decompose.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
Its basically just making charcoal from woody wastes(i use my pruning from my garden).
making biochar using a pit. the wood becomes stable carbon and lasts hundreds of years. I grind it and put it in my compost then add the compost+biochar into my garden.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Biochar is cool and all, but it’s still not as good as preserving the wood completely intact. The article you cited itself says “it is predicted that at least 50% of the carbon in any piece of waste turned into biochar becomes stable,” which is quite a bit less than 100%.
I suppose it’s good for the twigs and other leftovers that aren’t even good enough to be made into OSB or MDF panels.
Jakylla@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
A little part stills goes to soil and other, we wouldn’t have coal if old trees decomposed all their CO2 back to the air
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Coal only exists because the bacteria did not exist to break the plant matter down yet when those trees died.
cynar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It can be formed, just not in the vast quantities it was back then. It requires unusual conditions to stop fungi making a meal out of it, before it gets buried deep enough.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
True. Limited areas like peat bogs.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
In a mostly solid form though
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No, it enters the atmosphere.
denial@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Not entirely. Some goes into the topsoil. Also if your guerilla project lives on one plant is replaced with another, so it is carbon negative compared with no plants in its place.