a bio solution would be the most elegant, but which trees do the best job in converting cardon dioxide? and how do we keep them from being cut down for fuel and land clearing? So how many trees would we need to get a handle on this issue?
2007-02-19 14:47:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Trees convert carbon dioxide and store the carbon in their trunks.. and grow.. so you think the fastest growers are the most effecient carbon capturers?
2007-02-19 14:57:44 · update #1
I've also heard about plankton in the Inter Tidal zone, not the open oceans.. and now we see the coral reefs are dying.. they also have carbon in them too..
2007-02-19 15:00:16 · update #2
also with trees? there are two separate aspects:
Rate of storage (green area) and storage capacity(wood size)..
Redwoods and douglas firs are big.. but they are prized for construction too..
2007-02-19 15:15:34 · update #3
okay, I think we have all we need.. and I believe a multi species is the best approach to achieve the best effects for the world.. but if inter tidal zones produce the most oxygen and convert/split the carbon.. how do we assist these bio systems? They must be taking hits due to global warming as we see the coral reefs dying around the world.. that is our key indicator..
How do we fix the existing reefs/inter tidal systems?
I see some cases where we are inserting our own artificial reef systems in cooler areas to allow formation of new reef systems and allow the biodiversity to continue.
I'd also say we need to cut back on commercial fishing as we are rapidly depleting the world stocks of fish and other marine creatures..
So let's open this up for solutions.. and you don't have to have the total solution, give us what you have and let's see what we can craft together.. remember we have the current global warming to deal with too.. so we can't say just go back ..
2007-02-20 18:40:52 · update #4
Natural systems evloved to maximise the convertion of sunlight to bio-mass.
therefore the most efficent for any given environment, (there is no ONE best solution) will be the one evolved pre-industrial human as climax woodland, old stand rainforest, ocean plancktons, reefs... And the solution is not a single mono-crop, but a complete system, plants, animals, bateria, fungi ... AND humans.
These will lock the carbon in organic material as happened in the carboniferous period when most fossil fuel was laid down
2007-02-20 00:02:35 · answer #1 · answered by fred 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plankton are the real converters of carbon dioxide to oxygen. Trees and plants only handle a small percentage of the conversion where the seas handle the majority.
2007-02-19 14:56:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trees don't convert carbon, they store it until they decompose.
2007-02-19 14:52:56 · answer #3 · answered by albatros39a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the best is a tree called Pawlonia ,it produces animal food and is supported by the world bank who pay large subsidies for farmers who reforrest with this tree
to talk about saving the planet we must think in terms of turning suburbs and freeholds into market gardening cultures all over the world
a dream i call return to Babylon
2007-02-19 18:45:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you're talking about CO2 to O2 conversion, I'd think it would be whichever tree has the greatest green surface area.
2007-02-19 15:06:35 · answer #5 · answered by sarcastro1976 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Japan buys out the lumber industry..takes our trees out to international waters...(floating saw mill) then sells it back to us ! if you walk the forrests....the only trees not cut are the ones along the side of the highways !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-02-19 14:52:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I concur with Albatros.
2007-02-19 14:57:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
byderule is right on target.
2007-02-19 18:59:09 · answer #8 · answered by Wattsup! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋