Re: CO2 sequestration

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Denker" <jsd@AV8N.COM>


> Rick Tarara wrote:
>
> > Plant LOTS of trees?
>
> I hear that suggestion a lot.  Alas it only works to the
> extent that
>  a) the trees live forever (or die and don't decay), which
>   is not a serious proposal, or
>  b) you use the wood as fuel, to the exclusion of fossil
>   carbon fuels.
>
> The point is that carbon atoms are conserved.  If you are
> steadily depleting large stores of fossil carbon, the
> carbon atoms must be steadily accumulating somewhere else.

Well, given enough time ;-) the dead trees will store some of their carbon
in NEW COAL.

Rick