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PufPuf23

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5. The log needs to be grown, harvested, moved and placed in a prepared site.
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 03:11 PM
Sep 2024

Landfilled wood and organic materials are a major source of methane from anaerobic digestion by microorganisms. Methane is bled out of some landfills, and even used to generate electricity. Methane is a greenhouse gas of orders of magnitude more than carbon dioxide produced by aerobic digestion.

This idea is preposterous given the scale required and methods required to seal the wood from decomposition. Maybe seal the logs in plastic?

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