I wrote:
> Then we sequester the deadwood from the resulting climax forests. > Depending on the forest it takes 50 to 100 years to reach climax, so there > is no rush. > I mean we bury the deadwood underground. Perhaps we should first bake it, to make charcoal, putting the water and other components back into the ecosystem. There is no point to doing this until the trees all grow to their final height and begin dying off from old age. While they are growing, they are sequestering carbon and releasing oxygen. After they die, most of the carbon goes back into the air, unless you bury the wood where it never rots. That is to say, unless you turn it into peat or coal. Naturally, some of the wood can be harvested for lumber or other human purposes. As long as it is not burned or rotted, the carbon would remain sequestered. I propose using small, quiet, robots the size of insects to harvest the dead wood a few grams at a time, and then fly to convey it to an open pit where it can be baked and then buried. I do not want giant machines doing this because that would be disruptive. - Jed
