Bill Gates Idiotic Investment - Bury the Trees to Prevent Possible Forest Fire CO2 Emissions!

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

That's Odd . Buried Trees Decompose Under Pressure and Create Crude Oil . I Think Bill just might have Solved the Peak Oil Problem Right there !

Here's another interesting way to capture CO2 with forest biomass - salt them, then they can go in our regular landfills, but burying it in the desert may not require anything else.

Salting and burying biomass crops in dry landfills could economically capture greenhouse gases for thousands of years

“Dryness, sometimes assisted by salt, effectively reduces the internal relative humidity of the sequestered biomass,” said Yablonovitch. “And that has been proven to prevent decomposition for thousands of years.”

The researchers point to a date palm named Methuselah as proof that biomass, if kept sufficiently dry, can be preserved well beyond the next millennium.

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