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by falsestprophet 6177 days ago
This is a very poor substitute for trees. Trees convert gaseous carbon dioxide into solid organic molecules [1].

I am pretty suspicious of the idea that humans (especially the humans who come up with the lowest bids to win these contracts) can store planetary-scale amounts of carbon dioxide over geologic time.

This may very well accomplish nothing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fixation