Another daft environmental idea ?.

[GarethM]

Will sinking tonnes of wood into the ocean help tackle climate change?

WWW.NEWSCIENTIST.COM

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Running Tide, a carbon-removal company in the US, has sunk more than 10,000 tonnes of waste wood into the...

 

 

[manco]

surely just going to make sea levels rise

[GarethM]

Why not just fill a mined out coal seam ?.

Surely that achieves the exact same effect, especially once you turn off the pumps.

[Conor Wright]

**************** me. A new level of stupid.

 

[Haironyourchest]

It's a startup, sounds like some smart-arse thought of a clever boondoggle: Waste wood, rubbish basically, pay me to dump it in the sea, New York mob style, and call it carbon sequestering.

 

"It would have been burned otherwise" ??? Maybe. Maybe not. So what? It also would have rotted and released it's CO2 that way, as vegetation does, but it also could have provided habitat and food for the ecosystem while it decomposed. It it could have provided heat while it "decomposed really fast" (also known as burning).

 

What they're trying to do is, taking plant matter out of the ecosystem cycle. A gimmick.

Edited August 10, 2023 by Haironyourchest

[AHPP]

1 hour ago, Haironyourchest said:

It's a startup, sounds like some smart-arse thought of a clever boondoggle: Waste wood, rubbish basically, pay me to dump it in the sea, New York mob style, and call it carbon sequestering.

 

"It would have been burned otherwise" ??? Maybe. Maybe not. So what? It also would have rotted and released it's CO2 that way, as vegetation does, but it also could have provided habitat and food for the ecosystem while it decomposed. It it could have provided heat while it "decomposed really fast" (also known as burning).

 

What they're trying to do is, taking plant matter out of the ecosystem cycle. A gimmick.