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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Farming, even bamboo, is pretty carbon-intensive. If you are planning to farm bamboo and then transport it to a strip mine, that’s going to use produce a bunch of carbon gases as well.
And we already have lots of “captured carbon” (trash) to put into holes. You’re describing landfills with an extra wasteful step of growing bamboo added on.
Finally, I don’t understand “instead of.” If a bamboo farmer sets up shop in town, that does not prevent the neighboring factory from *also* capturing their carbon byproducts.
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