What is Carbon Sequestration?
There is a finite amount of Carbon in the world - it gets released as we interact with the earth. For example, burning fossil fuels, tiling soil, and lots of other human activities.
Re-capturing the CO2 released to the atmosphere is called Carbon sequestration, and trees and plants are great at it. The leaves of growing trees absorb atmospheric carbon from the air as part of photosynthesis, turn it into sugars that turns into wood and moves through its roots. The carbon is held in the wood and in the soil and is sequestered until the tree eventually dies and decays or is burnt.
Things We’re Researching
What type of tree is the best vessel to grab carbon? Big leaves? deep roots? Shallow?
Is carbon that needs to be sequestered distributed equally throughout the planet? Does it matter where the tree is planted to have same effect?
What's the time range (5yr, 10yr, 30yr, 50yr, 100yr).