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Could you please explain where will the wood eventually go? Wood (which contain all the CO2 they absorb over the years, if other readers haven't thought about it) have 3 possible destinies: #1 stay as live trees. #2 Die or get cut, then decay. #3 Get cut, made into timber, then used by human, e.g. furniture or construction.

#1 can't do much, because land is finite. #3 seems unlikely for your company, because it's hard to imagine inventing a new type of tree which happens to make more competitive wood than traditional trees, also because you didn't mention it. #2 seems your goal, because you did mention "slow decay", but slow decay is still decay, it doesn't matter whether a tree takes 25 years or 50 years to decay, all the CO2 it absorbs will eventually release back to atmosphere, which makes 0 net change. Could you elaborate on that? Thanks.

parent ZYinMD 4 years ago

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