trees
3 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 30, 2022 by Jan Wurzbacher · across every show →
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Jun 30, 2022 bullish
Wurzbacher: Direct air capture is 1,000x more area-efficient than trees
“If you build machines like we are doing, you can do it on much, much less area. So you are about a thousand times more area efficient. So at the same area where you can take one ton out of the air with trees, you could take a thousand tons out of the air with …”
Jun 30, 2022 bearish
Wurzbacher: Removing 10B tons of CO2 via trees requires Europe-sized land
“If we just do the calculation, what about capturing these ten billion tons of CO₂ from the air just by planting trees or doing similar biological methods, then you'll end up with huge areas that you need to fill with new trees. It's like you need something lik…”