[Terrapreta] Tree planting -- a bit more

[Edward Someus]

NO, -- Saw timber that becomes house and furniture do NOT constitute a true
carbon sink, this is virtual solution. 
 
 
THIS IS WRONG TIME DIMENSION.  2 aspects
 
While timber house life time sustaining few decades only (if at all) and the
life time of the furnitures are few years only, -- VS carbon sink to soil
for MINIMUM and SAFELY several 1000s of years, which later is a true time
perspective solution for human kind. 

After the life time of the timber house and the furniture, this mass creates
a new waste problem (sometimes a nasty one), as this is mostly impregnated
and/or painted, and the operations to handle this type of hazardous organic
waste stream is complex issue and the original wood material will be carbon
emitter again in soon time.  
My opinion is that this is not a true solution for carbon storage. 
 
 
 

Sincerely yours: Edward Someus (environmental engineer)
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: lou gold
Date: 2007.12.04. 6:03:09
To: still.thinking at computare.org
Cc: Terrapreta
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Tree planting -- a bit more
 
Duane,

You are part right. Saw timber that becomes house and furniture do
constitute a carbon sink. BUT I'll bet that no more than 20% of the original
forest biomass ends up in these uses. Most goes to paper products,
co-generation and plain old waste. Cutting forests with the presumed goal of
a home carbon sink is not the way to go. 

all best,

lou




On Dec 4, 2007 2:54 AM, Duane Pendergast <still.thinking at computare.org>
wrote:

Lou,
 
I guess Mike has not noticed yet that Canada 's dead trees become houses in
Canada and the US . There's your carbon sink. The renewing forest keeps on
removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  The missing link here is to
turn any dead houses into charcoal and rebuild the soil with them. Keep up
the good work.
 
Duane
 
-----Original Message-----
From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of lou gold
Sent: December 3, 2007 9:45 PM
To: Terrapreta
Subject: [Terrapreta] Tree planting -- a bit more
 
Kelpie Wilson over at TruthOut as juxtaposed two recent articles on tree
planting, soils, etc.
They reveal the issues. http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120307EA.shtml 

There's tremendous misunderstanding and I suspect lots is reported without
full context. Here's an example:
    "Forests are a band-aid," said Mike Flannigan, a research scientists at
the Canadian Forest Service. "Eventually, forests die, releasing all that
stored carbon into the atmosphere." 
    "Forests are carbon-neutral over the long term," Flannigan told IPS. 
 



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