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Why carbon capture needs a reality check
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We need to invent carbon capture!
Meanwhile: trees
Trees doesn't work either, they die and release all that carbon back into the atmosphere
The goal is to harvest them to use them in construction work. A house frame can stay as is for over a hundred years or more, enough to regrow the trees harvested twice or more. We just need to make the harvesting process less energy intensive...
Trees do work though...