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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: 0s | source
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vbezhenar ◴[14 Apr 25 15:32 UTC] No.43682422[source]▶
If our civilization would switch to individual wood houses, assuming that cut trees were regrown, that would allow to capture quite a sizeable chunk of carbon as well.
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mvc ◴[14 Apr 25 17:21 UTC] No.43683702[source]▶
Fascinating idea. I suppose you can't build sky-scrapers with wood but surely you could build the vast majority of family houses.
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1. cess11 ◴[14 Apr 25 18:00 UTC] No.43684244[source]▶
You probably want concrete around the lifts but otherwise you could use timber.

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