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0 pointsdheera2mo ago0 comments

> stable form

Not really, forest fires happen and then a few hundred of years of sequestered CO2 gets released back in an instant.

Organic material with oxygen gas floating around is not stable.

Sequestering carbon into the ocean might be a better strategy. Not flammable and not subject to stupid capitalism effects around land prices.

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lefra2mo ago

The ocean has already absorbed 30% of the CO2 humanity has emitted. It causes issues: ocean acidity rises, which reduces plankton ability to grow. Plankton being the base of the ocean food chain, all ocean life gets impacted.

You'd need to find a way to sequester carbon without it leaching in the water.

https://marine.copernicus.eu/ocean-climate-portal/ocean-carb...

dheeraOP2mo ago

Random idea: What if we just sequestered it into elemental carbon pellets and let it sink to the bottom of the ocean? It should not react with the water.

gus_massa2mo ago

One idea is to charcoal the wood, it makes it harder to decompose and is similar to pure carbon. I'm not sure if it's better to send it to the bottom of the ocean or just to a big hole on land.

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