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(Sweden) Christmas tree wood used to build world's tallest wooden wind turbine
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this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2023
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It would be nice if we could improve on gut reactions and sort out how much (if any) CO₂ is accumulated by spruce trees at the various points of maturity. Ideally the trees would only be cleared at the point where their CO₂ absorption rate tanks (which may not necessarily be when the tree would look nice in a living room) -- assuming there is such a stage in its life.
Unless you're turning it into charcoal and burying it deep under ground or allowing it to rot in a place that will be permanently banned from being tilled it's 6 vs 1/2 dozen
Even when trees die they take years to decompose, and not all of the CO2 captured by a tree will be rereleased as CO2, as the tree is decomposing the organisms consumeing the trees will incorporate some of the carbon into themselves, approximately 4%of the tree's weight.