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comment by ThurberMingus
ThurberMingus  ·  1559 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can we sequester all of our C02 with trees? [Update: No]

Right. But the carbon still had to be in the deposit.

At this point I'm speculating that if the trees in a forest [no fires] sequester X tons per year for Y years [longer than lifetime of trees], the Total Sequestered Carbon << X×Y, unless something is done to prevent typical decay. I think most of the carbon cycles and not much is sequestered once the forest is mature.

Though now I'm realizing that the zero-to-maturity sequestration is probably more important than the post-forest-maturity sequestration.





mk  ·  1559 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Though now I'm realizing that the zero-to-maturity sequestration is probably more important than the post-forest-maturity sequestration.

Yeah, that’s exactly it. I’m just considering tree-building.