That still isn't very long in the overall scheme of things. At the very best it ties-up the CO2 for a few hundred years and then releases it again and at the worst it creates vast quantities of Methane ...and then releases the CO2.Pdxfashionpioneer wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:33 am I have to disagree with both of you on a few things.
Pelmut, growing trees and then cutting them down for timber or paper captures C02 for the life of the tree plus the life of the product.
Longer if the product isn't disposed of by fire or above ground disposal.
How else is it going to be disposed of?
The arisings from thinning out undergrowth can only be disposed of by burning or decomposing, with the same disadvantages as before.Proper forest management, most importantly controlling the undergrowth and thinning will prevent forest fires.
...and the bad news about that is the environmental cost of making and disposing of electric car batteries and motors and the scarcity of the materials required to make them.That's the bad news, the good news is that parked electric cars that are connected to the grid could provide the storage needed to fill in the gaps left by wind and solar produced electricity.