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user-inactivated · 3420 days ago · link · · parent · post: There’s too much carbon dioxide in the air. Why not turn it back into fuel?
Wow, this is great question. The answer is... sorta . Trees do remove particulates, lower air temps, retain moisture in soils, retard erosion an of course are a CO2 sink. And yes, the best way is to reduce emissions. But if we can reduce emissions, and reforest parts of the planet, hey why not?Of course, something even more energy-efficient, cheap and effective to reduce carbon dioxide in the air (along with it's less-spoken-of brother, nitrogen oxides) is to actually reduce our consumption of fossil fuels. Do plants even filter out N2O?