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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You’re not completely wrong about this. If you look at the huge amounts of organic waste that are burnt or let to rot every year, it would be a very reasonable way to capture carbon if you would bury this (in a place it can’t escape from)
As for bamboo, while there are differences, plants that grow quickly generally have lower carbon density. That is why slow wood is if better quality.
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