[21twelve]

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.)

[Jonty30]

One tree is not that great, but a million trees is fantastic. We can always plant the trees that do the best job.

[Jonty30]

The trees also renew themselves once planted. It’s like we only have to plant one tree, one-time, and we will have a forever worker pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere forever.

[misanthrope]

“ A mature tree captures about 48 pounds of CO2 a year.”

So, 183,333 trees a year. Maybe 100 acres of forest? Wonder how many trees they killed clearing for this “plant”.