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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 14:27:15 -0400
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Cryptoengineer wrote:
> On 10/3/2024 10:58 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:
>> In article <vFGLO.120073$WtV9.87808@fx10.iad>,
>> Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>> This one sounds interesting.
>>>
>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/09/26/carbon-atmosphere-burying-wood/ 
>>>
>>>
>>> Would take a lot of wood; there are some fast growing but
>>> otherwise useless trees (you-clipped-us, for example) that
>>> would be suitable for this purpose.
>>
>> I hesitate to mention hemp (since my impression is that most
>> of the people pushing hemp are really more interested in the
>> wacky tabaky variety) but hemp (the non-psychoactive kind)
>> does have some seriously good points. It's fast growing,
>> nitrogen fixing, produces what's apparently a good quality
>> fiber, and if you grow a big excess and bury the excess...
>> I think it would be pulling carbon out of the air faster
>> than trees, which are pretty slow growing.
>>
>> There may be other plants that are even better at this.
> 
> Seeding the open ocean with iron is also proposed - creates
> an algal bloom, which dies and sinks to the ocean floor.

Only in some areas, with a high silica content.  Otherwise it just dies 
and rots.
> 
> The ecological side effects are not well studied.

Still well worth studying, in my opinion.  We should not be leaving any 
stones unturned.

William Hyde