Carbon 1 Carbon storage LCA

Ask about wood -video series is filmed in Aalto University in 2022 starring visiting scientist Callum Hill and Professor Mark Hughes who answer questions about wood from students. Dr. Kristiina Lillqvist and Dr. Daniela Altgen are the developers and producers of the concept and filming + editing done by Lassi Savola from Aalto Studios.
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The videos are available at @aalto-wood and are part of online learning material development project led by Professor Lauri Rautkari (and his Wood material science research group: www.aalto.fi/e...) and funded by the Wood building program of the Ministry of Environment (ym.fi/en/wood-....
Keywords: wood, wood products, wood material science, carbon, forest, recycling, cascading, biodiversity, circular economy, panel, plywood, particle board, glulam, CLT, sawn timber, sawmilling, sorption, mechanical properties, stiffness, strength, modified wood

[@paulcoffey359]

Trees as carbon storage is nonsense

[@callumhill8522]

Would you like to explain why?

[@paulcoffey359]

@@callumhill8522 Because each year humans extract 50 billion tonnes of carbon from the ground and gasify it into the air. Trees store about 1 tonne of carbon on average. Humans otherwise plant 2 billion trees per year. If humans tripled their annual planting, still only 4 billion tonnes extra would be stored each year. Additionally, that storage must be considered temporary.
Thunderf00t has made some good videos on the matter and i like his numbers:
ua-cam.com/video/Z5uuIcS4kqE/v-deo.html
Trees could work, if they were grown on masse to be used as carbon sponges and then physically returned deep enough into the ground, that the carbon couldn't get back out.