I just checked. 160 trees will do this job for free.
160 trees is about 1/5 of an acre of land.
So, for the sake of this giant machinary, taking up at least 1/5 of an acre of land, we could have planed 1/5 of an acre for trees and gotten the same result.
http://www.tenmilliontrees.org/trees/
Um. Trees are great, but not that great. A mature tree captures about 48 pounds of CO2 a year. (Found that number in a couple of places).
That said, I wonder how much CO2 was produced to build this plant? And to operate it? Sounds like a good way to make money though. And get all sorts of government tax breaks along the way! (Like solar panels, etc.)
>>I just checked. 160 trees will do this job for free.
I hate it when people post obviously incorrect data, and then all the response just accept it as fact and build their responses and opinion based on that.
A typical tree will capture in the order of a few dozen POUNDS of CO2 a year (~50lbs on average)
So in order to capture 4000 TONS, or 80,000,000 of CO2 you would not need 160 trees, you would need about 1,6000,000 trees, not 160 trees.
Please folks, don’t make us all look stupid by making up or posting completely wrong data.
>>In summary, it can be concluded that the annual CO2 offsetting rate varies from 21.77 kg CO2/tree to 31.5 kg CO2/tree. To compensate 1 tonne of CO2, 31 to 46 trees are needed. In Europe, there are 300 to 500 trees per hectare. For calculating the figures on the Encon website, we assume a rate of 24 kg CO2/tree and an average of 500 trees per hectare. This means that 1 hectare of forest: 500 trees x 24 kg CO2/tree = 12,000 kg of CO2 offsets, i.e. 12 tonnes CO2/hectare.
https://www.encon.be/en/calculation-co2-offsetting-trees
Do you have a link?
I just checked. 160 trees will do this job for free.
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But where is all the government grant money in that?