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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There’s a lot of problem with carbon capture tech, mainly that it doesn’t work at scale and inefficient. You are right that just planning tree would be better.
That said, just planning tree had it own problem. You can’t Just plan bamboo, or any 1 singular plant for that matter. It could actually have a reverse effect. What you really want is bio-diversity, and that is really hard to do.
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