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sunbeam60@lemmy.one 7 months agoTree roots down far. You definitely could not run carbon sequestering underneath.
But then again, why would you? Why even bother with sucking it out of the air if trees are so much cheaper? And the added benefit is that you’ll be rewilding land, so it impacts biodiversity too.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As mentioned elswhere in the thread, running a carbon capture plant is something you could just do when renewables are producing excess output which would be more efficient than just winding them down.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Trees got solar panels built in you’re not gonna win this one.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Very few renewables are wound down, though. Usually the excess is used to fill pumped storage or turn down hydro plants. For now that’s a viable strategy but soon are exceed renewable will be have to be used someplace else so it’s not a bad idea. I doubt it’ll be enough though.