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Dead trees keep surprisingly large amounts of carbon out of atmosphere

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91 points PaulHoule | 1 comments | 14 Apr 25 14:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.268s | source
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f4c39012 ◴[14 Apr 25 15:26 UTC] No.43682355[source]▶
my old boss had an idea - "bury trees".

There's a bit of nuance to be filled out, like challenges of forest plantation monoculture and so on, but it always sounded quite practical to me. Iirc the idea derived from "coal".

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1. marcusverus ◴[14 Apr 25 16:26 UTC] No.43683041[source]▶
I've considered something like this. Log on the lee side of a mountain range, haul the logs (downhill!) to the arid plain on the lee side, stack loosely, repeat. An electrified highway could allow much of the process to be powered via nuke energy.

Basically any place where you've got high timber production within a reasonably short distance of an arid area could make for a relatively low-tech sequestration/storage pipeline.