Why not just use bamboo and bury it instead of expensive carbon capture tech?

Question

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.

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

There’s actually a new study that came out about [Wood Vaulting](https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adm8133) and how it is very likely a viable means of carbon capture. Skeptics Guide to the Universe talked about it on the podcast this week.