All roads lead to Jesse Ausubel at Rockefeller University, who mentioned IIASA explored something related to this a long time ago. I did some googling but couldn't find more. I'll send a query to Jesse and see what turns up.
At 8:07 PM -0800 1/31/09, Ning Zeng wrote: >Hello Andy: >Thanks for the post! > >My colleague, oceanographer Jim carton and I wrote a rough draft last >year on an idea of sustainably harvesting wood from the Black Sea >drainage basin including the Alps, rafting down the logs and sink to >the bottom of the Sea. Tom Schelling mentioned to me of this 'pickled >tree' idea, but we haven't been able to track down the references and >exactly what was proposed decades ago. Do you have any lead on this? > >Hello Greg: >On two issues you raised: >1) methane generation in anoxic environment: apparently methanogenic >bacteria don't like lignin. This is evidenced by the observation that >wood hardly decays in landfills while other organic matter like food >decomposes quickly. While paper in landfill also decomposes (though >slowly), the cellulose in wood is hardly attacked because they are >incorporated together with lignin. So there is reasonable chance for >long-term sequestration of woody material. >2) I was told fresh wood sinks by itself before it looses water. Or >may be your are right it depends on what kind of trees? I'd love to >have some references on this. > >Cheers! >-Ning > >Ning Zeng >Associate Professor, University of Maryland >www.atmos.umd.edu/~zeng > > >On Jan 30, 5:47 pm, Andrew Revkin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Jesse Ausubel discusses the "Black Pickle" concept for sequestering >> carbon in the sea at the tail end of this updated post: >> http://tinyurl.com/dotUrbanJungle >> -- >> Andrew C. Revkin >> The New York Times / Environment >> 620 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10018 >> Tel: 212-556-7326 Mob: 914-441-5556 >> Fax: 509-357-0965http://www.nytimes.com/revkin > -- Andrew C. Revkin The New York Times / Environment 620 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10018 Tel: 212-556-7326 Mob: 914-441-5556 Fax: 509-357-0965 http://www.nytimes.com/revkin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
