On Thu Feb 12 2015 at 3:47:05 AM Daniel Kirk-Davidoff < [email protected]> wrote:
> Well, if you cut down a forest and burn the trees for electricity or home > heating, it may take 100 years to fully recover the lost carbon. > I think trees harvested for biomass are generally fast-growing species grown and used for this purpose (or paper, etc.) and harvested on cycles much more like 10-20 years than 100. So if you harvest the lumber every 20 years, it doesn't take longer than that to return to the steady state. Of course, if you stopped harvesting these trees altogether, you might increase the total carbon reservoir over time. But you could say the same about turning wheat and corn fields back into forests. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
