Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

In article <vdpc22$anou$2@dont-email.me>,
 William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 10/3/2024 10:58 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <vFGLO.120073$WtV9.87808@fx10.iad>,
Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:

This one sounds interesting.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/09/26/carbon-atmosph
ere-burying-wood/
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Would take a lot of wood; there are some fast growing but
otherwise useless trees (you-clipped-us, for example) that
would be suitable for this purpose.

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I hesitate to mention hemp (since my impression is that most
of the people pushing hemp are really more interested in the
wacky tabaky variety) but hemp (the non-psychoactive kind)
does have some seriously good points. It's fast growing,
nitrogen fixing, produces what's apparently a good quality
fiber, and if you grow a big excess and bury the excess...
I think it would be pulling carbon out of the air faster
than trees, which are pretty slow growing.
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There may be other plants that are even better at this.

 
Seeding the open ocean with iron is also proposed - creates
an algal bloom, which dies and sinks to the ocean floor.

 
Only in some areas, with a high silica content.  Otherwise it just dies
and rots.

Which is not good.

 
The ecological side effects are not well studied.

 
Still well worth studying, in my opinion.  We should not be leaving any
stones unturned.

There is a carbon dioxide reservoir that is truly immense (estimated to
have already taken in as much carbon dioxide that is in the atmosphere
of Venus), but it is really slow. Since we can't wait the tens of
thousands of years that it will need to absorb the current bubble of
CO2, is there any way to speed it up a few orders of magnitude?

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