The Carbon Cycle says that live plants take CO2 out of the air, when plants die they turn back into CO2. We CAN control the turn back time to reduce CO2.

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Replying to @MikeHudema
Maybe we should consider a workaround. Collect and store dry plant materials. Science rates this as carbon negative. Then make natural gas and oil following the gasification process from the plant material. Scientists consider burning plant materials as carbon neutral. Workaround
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Replying to @MikeHudema
Are we going to start turning dead plant material into natural gas, liquid fuel, and charcoal in gasification plants? Plant materials break down above 400’f. Dry dead plant materials and municipal waste are ideal for this process. They could be used to supplement our needs.
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Replying to @LeonSimons8
And yet we don’t practice keeping more plant material from turning back into the greenhouse gases. Plants die and then begin decaying back into the gasses they came from. Keep them from decaying and you are reducing the greenhouse gases evolved. And no new technology is needed.
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Replying to @DaniMayakovski
Has anyone considered using the heat generated for geothermal and heating facilities in the colder months? Couldn’t the heat be stored underground and used when needed later? Maybe use it in greenhouse for food production.
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Replying to @KirkLubimov
Look to The Carbon Cycle Theory for reaching Net Zero. Plants pull oxygen out of the air as they grow. When they die they begin turning back into CO2. But it doesn’t tell us how fast the turn back happens. So if you can slow or stop the turn back you are reducing CO2 emissions.
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One solution for more energy is to collect trees and plant material and use the energy they have collected and stored. Explore gasification. Collect and store dead/dry plant material for use later.
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Replying to @JayInslee
Jay, thru the process called gasification you can turn carbon compounds like trees, brush and trash into natural gas, liquid fuels and charcoal. Gasification is done at over 800’f and the heat can be used for making electricity. We can easily add to the carbon due supply.
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Denmark is held up as proof a fossil grid can be replaced. But electricity prices have more than doubled since 2000, to now sit amongst the highest in the world. Moreover, the majority of what is labelled renewable is actually biomass, that is, wood. Trees are cut, often abroad, compressed into pellets, shipped in and then burnt for power. At the smokestack, more CO2 is released than just simply burning gas. But it is labelled as "green" because the emissions are not counted at the power plant. They are 1) assigned to the country where the trees were cut, and 2) assumed to be reabsorbed by future regrowth. So the system works like this: Cut trees, burn them, emit CO2, call it clean. Laughably, 64% of Denmark's renewable energy comes from this process.
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Replying to @Electroversenet
Are you telling us that you can sequester carbon by freezing plant life? 6000 years is much longer than if the tree decay naturally or was burned up.Freezing plant material can be used to reduce emissions, reduce climate change and is something environmentalists need to know.
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Replying to @WallStreetApes
Too bad the dead trees aren’t collected and stored so they don’t just turn back into CO2. Keep all that carbon sequestered and help reduce CO2 emissions and reduce climate change.
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Replying to @PrairieVeteran
Maybe it is time to start collecting dead trees from the forest. Dead trees are done taking CO2 out of the air. Clean forest reduce forest fires and allows the sunshine to reach live plants. Use that stored energy to reduce fossil fuel use.
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Replying to @LightOnLiberty
Still the best way to reduce CO2 is to stop complex carbon compounds from changing into CO2 emissions. The largest source of complex carbon compounds is past and present dead plant material. I suggest that keeping dead plant material from decaying is reducing CO2 emissions.
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Replying to @joeroganhq
Keep dead plant material from decaying so fast. Just collecting and keeping dry this material will slow how fast this material turns into CO2 by a factor of 10. Keeping it from being eaten my insects and microbes by a factor of 100. And the material collected is a future fuel
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Replying to @TheRlyBigShow
The cheapest carbon capture is keeping plant material from degrading into CO2. I suggest starting with dead plant material. Collect it, store it so it is good in 100 years or more. Dry it, freeze it, keep it away from oxygen, make something useful out of it.
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Replying to @Mylovanov
Plant material can be turned into natural gas thru the process of gasification. I suggest cleaning up some of the dead plant material and garbage from cities to making our own natural gas. By the way, electricity can be a byproduct of the gasification process.
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Replying to @kiteandkeymedia
And if you want to make natural gas from dead plant material you can do it thru a process called gasification. Heating dead plant material to over 500’f breaks chemical bonds making natural gas. Gasification, look it up 👀
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Replying to @ChrisMartzWX
We could another fuel to the mix in the future. Plant material can be turned into fuel thru the gasification process. At 400’F to 800’F this material can break chemical bonds and become natural gas and liquid fuels. Collect dead dry plant material now. Use it for fuels later.
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Replying to @devorydarkins
Why do you need all those jobs? If you grow trees that you are taking CO2 out of the air. And after those trees die 1. Collect them 2. Store them so they don’t burn or they don’t decay (eaten by microbes or insects) Dead plant material is the largest CO2 emissions source. Stop it
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Replying to @anika_climate
Do you know that plants take CO2 out of the air as they grow and when plants die they begin turning back into CO2? And we can control the speed that the dead plants turn back into CO2. So, to reduce CO2 we can slow the decay of dead plant material. Do you agree?
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Why not start today collecting and saving energy today to be used in the future!!! Collect dead dry trees. Plant material contains 70% the energy of coal. You don’t have to move it today, you just need to start collecting it for later use. Keep it dry to slow decay.
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