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john

9pawp

wanna go to colorado wiht me to mine some materials

Colorado is comfy

i swear the radation probably wont def give you cancer

Wouldnt be able to stand dudeweeders

i was in there

doing research involving using wood rekt by beetles for renewable energy

@Pawp raditation is a meme. Bring back radium.

Sweet

we get some mats, we sail to france

Half life of centuries, fuck tritium

we annex teh frenchies

@Deleted User grinding up beetles or the wood

The wood

apparently Colorado wanted to see if it was feasible to use dead wood to generate energy

>deadwood

i was working on that shit

Im guessing this was a government program

isnt the math on teh cost to generate the deadwood super inefficent

the thing is that since carbon sequestration is not really understood

so at the end the study did found that while it might be beneficial to the rockies to get rid of dead trees to avoid wildfires

the benefits of using the wood as energy was at most ehhhh

Oh you mean pine borers

yep

Yeah that shit is turning canada into a tinderbox

Didnt know it was a problem that bad in the US

Well in a way climate change is really fucking the rockies

as the warmer weather makes the beetles to go all out in reproducing

TBH id rather have forest fires as a problem then not have forests at all

so you get a infestation to the point that it is causing massive wildfires

2 years ago a shitload of land near my house birned down

damn

So they decided to not solve wild fires because it wouldn't balence carbon wise?

In a way it was to decide whenever avoiding the wildfires was also worth using the wood as fuel

the thing is

wood is less efficient that carbon

carbon atm is 35-40% efficient

wood like 25%

and also the carbon sequestration, which is basically the carbon in the dead trees, would actually be counter to the point of not polluting the atmosphere with CO2 since this carbon will be liberated again to the atmosphere