{"id":304,"date":"2024-10-23T17:48:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forealis.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=304"},"modified":"2025-01-20T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:07:59","slug":"biome-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/biome-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest biomes, the best alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Therefore, this left forests and interwoven wetlands as the only viable alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forests also have very large surface areas and intrinsic mass, and very fortunately turn out to have a many positive attributes for large-scale carbon capture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Forests\u2019 technology is established and thoroughly tested \u2013 photosynthesis has been around for about 3.4 billion years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They can operate at truly large scale &#8211; forests already absorb about 15.6 billion tons of emitted carbon dioxide every year\u2013 over half of all fossil-fuel based emissions. &nbsp;(Unfortunately, due to deforestation, fires, and other disturbances forests also release 8.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide, leaving the net absorption at 20% of all anthropogenic emissions).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The process is highly economic \u2013 growing trees is relatively cheap, and when the resulting wood fiber is used in industry, the <strong>cost of carbon capture is actually negative<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Forest growth also brings many secondary benefits such as biodiversity, environmental improvements, multiuse etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Silvicultural science on forest growth is relatively well known and established.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, forests are conceptually the reverse combustion engine: instead of drawing on existing carbon stocks and emitting CO2 into atmosphere, forests absorb atmospheric CO2 and store it in inert, usable, solid cellulose fibers. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, large scale carbon capture via forests is by far the most attractive prospect. The next analysis to consider therefore is the suitability of each of the three forest biomes: Tropical, Temperate, and Boreal forests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Therefore, this left forests and interwoven wetlands as the only viable alternative. Forests also have very large surface areas and intrinsic mass, and very fortunately turn out to have a many positive attributes for large-scale carbon capture: Indeed, forests are conceptually the reverse combustion engine: instead of drawing on existing carbon stocks and emitting CO2 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/biome-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forest biomes, the best alternative&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[12],"class_list":["post-304","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}