[JoshuaDavid]

You joke, but if you have a solid idea of how to permanently¹ sequester carbon from trees in a cheap and scalable fashion, it might be worth submitting that proposal. If nothing else, it can serve as a baseline against which other proposals are judged (as in X tones more cost effective than the "plant some trees" approach).

¹ Some uses for wood, like as fuel, release the carbon back into the atmosphere. Likewise anything where the wood decomposes.

[sudosysgen]

Heating up the wood in an inert atmosphere until it decomposes to pure carbon would work. Where should I submit such a proposal?

[guerrilla]

What would be the point of that? Why not just cut down the trees, bury them and grow new ones?

[sudosysgen]

If you simply bury them, there is a good chance the wood will be decomposed anaerobically, producing methane then carbon dioxide.

[babesh]

Why bury them? Build more things from wood instead of plastic.

[guerrilla]

That would be nice wouldn't it.

[Kaibeezy]

I think the point is that by removing the water, empty space and non-carbon it would be physically much smaller.

Now, compress it under great pressure and heat and enter the Diamond Age.

[londons_explore]

Then we can pour diamonds into our cars and burn them...

[totalZero]

Per the article, the details of that will be released next week. Seems like a cool idea.