Forests and carbon capture

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Even one year is a long time where technological development is concerned these days. For all we know, in fifty years we could be sequestering carbon by the kiloton to build space ships to make the Earth-Mars run.

I'm with Classicdrogn. Do not rely on 'amazing new technology' until it's been developed to the point that the proposed technology can be implemented on the scale required to have the effect desired.

Work with the available knowledge and implementable technology. There's a reason I proposed sequestering carbon by producing vast quantities of charcoal and shoving it into a deep hole. A good chunk of all construction lumber is not used for new construction but for maintenance or replacement of existing structures. Which effectively means no net gain in sequestered carbon.


As for the idea of sequestering kilotons of carbon per run by Earth-Mars interplanetary travel?

We need to sequester gigatons. Literally a million times as much as a single run. And I don't see Earth-Mars planetary travel becoming so casual that we're sending a million runs in any appreciable amount of time.