Are we missing a trick here?

[yellowbelly]

I did hear that there are plans to take those trees, once they have grown and been felled, cart them offshore, then bury them below the sea bed so that their carbon is locked away forever.

A bunch of pee’d up students trying to write a project up before the next morning’s deadline would struggle to come with a dafter idea.

Well, we're about to get (yet another) pipeline that's going to take CO2 from Drax power station, Scunthorpe steelworks and the Humber Bank oil refineries and it finishes up somewhere in the North Sea in some underwater caves.

How they're going to stop it bubbling up out of the caves and into the atmosphere, God only knows.

But, hey ho, it's the latest wonder scheme dreamt up by somebody a lot cleverer than me, so it's bound to work.

 

[Nithsdale]

Well, we're about to get (yet another) pipeline that's going to take CO2 from Drax power station, Scunthorpe steelworks and the Humber Bank oil refineries and it finishes up somewhere in the North Sea in some underwater caves.

How they're going to stop it bubbling up out of the caves and into the atmosphere, God only knows.

But, hey ho, it's the latest wonder scheme dreamt up by somebody a lot cleverer than me, so it's bound to work.

Isn't that what they reckon causes the Bermuda Triangle?...

It's a natural occuring 'vent' of co2 (or some other gas) which sends a stack straight up... it buggers the air and when planes pass through it, they literally drop out of the sky!!


Edit; I think it's methane

 

[JD-Kid]

I did hear that there are plans to take those trees, once they have grown and been felled, cart them offshore, then bury them below the sea bed so that their carbon is locked away forever.

A bunch of pee’d up students trying to write a project up before the next morning’s deadline would struggle to come with a dafter idea.

yep heard the same or make it in to charcoal and stick in the ground as it dose not rot as fast so lifts soil carbon levels

 

[JD-Kid]

What carbon hoof print ?

the powers to be are going to bring agri in to it so farmers will have to record there greenhouse gases and carbon on farm etc etc
they have a few plans on how to do it but bit arse about face really
if you take any starting date say today then some people may already have crops that lower gas low fert inputs etc so harder for them to drop lower others on other hand bang in some trees lower fert use and could hit target buy a electric side by side put in solar panels etc etc better stock with lower gases or even feeding biochar in there feed will lower gas outputs
back date it to the start of the ETS 1990 there was alot of areas converted to cows put water on higher fert use from older low input sheep and beef farms so were do yer start
same with regen farmers lifting carbon in soil sheep farmers with perm grass will have higher levels were a plough and work farm will be lower the plough farm swaps to no till cover crops etc etc and gets rewarded the farmers that were doing good things all along get the stick

the whole ETS thing is a crock

 

[JD-Kid]

There is a market for it. That simple really.

Would be better if we addressed it in a lot of other ways.

Bull they appear to want to reduce methane emissions by 30%

To do this they want 30% less farm animals.

But I’ll beat the f*ckers won’t I ..... if I can produce animals that produce 30% less methane!

They can’t take away the sheep then!

yep they have been doing tests here with animals and seaweed drench showing it is lowering out put read a book other day that biochar in there feed drops it and improves feed use
lowering methane would be a win win as farting is a by product and if thats lowered it becomes protein so helps animal gains
alot to do with microbes in gut change them and makes things work better.
but yer right there are plans at foot to try and lower stock numbers
just how well that will go im not fully sold on it

most places the stock numbers have been dropping for years world wide I would say there have been big drops change in land use and even the drop in poorer sheep etc with changes in payments subs etc
intresting during covid most citys the air improved with less cars and industry shut down there is the major area to target for a start but animals dont vote people do hence why target livestock
than target the forests cut down for soy milk big industry etc etc

here at this stage all the carbon can be off set in trees if price goes up the cost is passed on to end user if they said only 50% could be off set with trees then it would force big changes or like most things get some far off country to make it making the country look greener world outputs the same tho

like a EV cool not burning oil but the power station is burning coal but dont let that get in the way of a good story