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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: 0.001s | 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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modo_mario ◴[14 Apr 25 15:34 UTC] No.43682454[source]▶
Those planks and beams will still rot, burn, etc. None of this is in any way a long term solution for anything it seems.
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tinco ◴[14 Apr 25 15:50 UTC] No.43682651[source]▶
Planks and beams rot substantially slower than they take to grow if built correctly. My house was cheap labor housing in the 1910's so no particularly fancy practice and only the exposed wood has been partly replaced. I've been told some of the beams were even recycled from Holland's old wooden shipping fleet.
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1. modo_mario ◴[17 Apr 25 09:38 UTC] No.43714655{3}[source]▶
That's still a temporary and limited solution. What we're pulling up now is far more and mostly won't be sequestered for countless thousands of years unless we put insane effort into making it so. Also everything about those houses has an insane footprint as of now. The steel, insulation, glass, etc It's not like you're going to outbuild climate change even if you tried.