I saw a youtube video about how Japan burns materials that can’t easily be recycled to produce energy and captures the CO2 produced from the process. The CO2 is then sold to some local factories to produce various things like fire extinguishers, and some algae farms (I googled this and algae is used to produce food and oil).
I googled that at sea level, CO2 in the atmosphere is at 350 PPM, but certain plants thrive at 1500 PPM.
It got me thinking – why can’t we pump CO2 into indoor farms, plantations or forests to sequester more carbon?
Would that even work? Is the carbon just released into the air again once the plants are eaten or broken down?
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> Would that even work? Is the carbon just released into the air again once the plants are eaten or broken down?
This is one issue. Plants are a short term Carbon sink.
The other problem is that most of the Carbon we’ve released into the atmosphere was trapped underground. We’d have to replant all the plant biomass we’ve deforested on the surface **and** enough to compensate for everything we’ve taken out of the ground.
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