so IIRC, plants are mostly made of carbon pulled from the air, this being especially true for fast growing plants with minimal root systems (there may be better examples than bamboo, but that one comes to mind). Also, we have plenty of big empty pits because of strip mining. So… why not just have bamboo / whatever farms whose sole purpose is filling those pits with “captured carbon” in the form of fast growing plants. Like yea some of it will rot, but if you pile it on fast enough it quickly becomes a hostile environment for most bacteria.
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Scale. The reason fossil fuels are so useful as fuel is that they’re incredibly energy (and carbon) dense. We emit approximately 37 *billion* tons of carbon per year.
Bamboo is not nearly as dense, so it would take a shocking amount of bamboo to offset any material amount of our emissions.
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