[SuoDuanDao]

If one simply gasified wood to run generators, then buried the residual charcoal to make tera preta, every kilowatt used to generate electricity would sequester a significant amount of carbon with minimal change to current infrastructure. One could use it first in disaster relief where there are a lot of downed trees anyway, then move to a fast-growing crop like hemp or bamboo. All that would be needed is more widely available wood gasifiers. Anyone want to invest in a company doing that?

[idiotsecant]

The output of commercial scale wood gassification plants is not charcoal? It's ash. The whole point of wood gassification is complete combustion, so turning as much of the carbon into combustible fuel as possible.