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

its quite a mess

some ppl where doing mathematical models of the carbon sequestration as part of their PhD's

However, using the trees did polluted less than using carbon overall, so there is that

the carbon sequestration, as i was reading, could be countered with new trees so there was that

However it all comes down if its cheaper (a) massive wildfires or (b) doing a massive reforestation of the rockies, which incluides removing all the dead shit

Can't stop that shit regardless so stop the whole billons of damage then.

True

>just got free cookies at work

>might be getting a free pumpkin cheesecake from one couple i know

this week is a good week to be me

sounds comfy

They're fattening you up to eat you