[EngManagerIsMe]

Probably worth considering pyrolysis before burying it. By heating the wood and baking it into char you get a few nice benefits:

* You produce biochar, which is almost pure carbon, and therefore you are only sequestering the weight/volume of the carbon, not all the water and other stuff.

* Biochar can be used as a soil amendment to improve microbial cultures and store carbon for hundreds or thousands of years

* You can produce energy in the form of heat or wood gas

* You can produce wood vinegar, which may have some agricultural or industrial uses

I think there's a nascent industry in converting biomass into biochar and sequestering it, but it would be very interesting to see it done with forestland more generally.

[silverthorn]

> I think there's a nascent industry in converting biomass into biochar and sequestering it

To expand on that, biochar seems to be the majority of carbon removal delivered commercially to date:

https://www.cdr.fyi/

Of course the entire CDR industry is nascent.

Bio-oil via pyrolysis is another option. Charm Industrial is trying to scale that up.

[dabluecaboose]

This is really fascinating, is biochar notably different from, say, charcoal? Or is it a trendier name for what we've already got?

I've looked at pyrolysis for home sustainability and have yet to find a good set of resources for it outside making charcoal.

[euroderf]

I've tried to read up on biochar but actually no treatment was as clear as yours.

Where's a good place to read up on it with an eye to practical applications ?