Does burning wood release all of the carbon a tree has captured in its lifetime? Does a dead decomposing tree do the same?

Question

Anytime carbon capture comes up, the conversation devolves into commenters saying the entire idea is dumb and trees already exist. I’d like to know more about the full life cycle of a tree and if the carbon it captures is permanent.

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Answer 1

Yep, trees are taken solar energy and loose carbon dioxide and turning into the complex tight or carbons that do eventually become oil and coal is left underground long enough, call Nestor as such, left on the surface and exposed to the right conditions, they are basically a battery of solar energy and can be turned into fire music. That does release all the carbon products they’ve stored and sequestered, but we absorb some of the oxygen they let out, over their lives.
In short they are a battery. They accumulate energy their entire lives.