Biomass-Burial

The premise Biomass burial is the deliberate placement of plant matter — wood chips, agricultural residues, sludges, algae, even whole logs — into an environment where it cannot decompose. The carbon a tree pulled from the air over its lifetime stays as carbon, instead of returning to the atmosphere as CO₂ or methane within years or decades. The appeal is that the hard part of carbon removal — pulling CO₂ out of dilute air — has already been done, for free, by photosynthesis. The engineering problem is narrower: stop the rot. ...