Dear Jinhe and dear friends of bamboo,
Certain forests of the Carboniferous did really act as carbon sinks. They
stored organic material in the soil, which later turned to be black coal.
Some coal seams are several meters thick. The fact that the today's forests
don't accumulate organic material in the ground, demonstrates, that our
forests don't are carbon sinks.
Or can anybody imagine a layer of phytoliths (plant stones), which is
several meters thick, under an old bamboo forest?
The forests of the Carboniferous needed some million years to capture the
carbon for the black coal. If any today's forest captured carbon, it would
just as well take some million years to bring the carbon, which we blew into
the air by burning the coal, back into the earth. This is a space of time,
in which – for example – the human being developed from the monkey.
Therefore I'm afraid that bamboo cannot contribute in a measurable scale to
save our climate.
In case there is anybody in this group, who is in doubt about my
argumentation, I will try another argument:
If the today's forests acted as carbon sinks, the whole carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere would be already consumed, before the man began to blow
carbon dioxide into the air.
Please believe me, I love bamboo and I don't like to communicate only bad
messages. But I think that it is better for this interesting and important
e-mail group, if we face up to the facts.
Regards,
Raimund
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Von: bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von Fu Jinhe
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2008 08:39
An: bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: [bamboo-plantations] Scientists uncover key to boosting carbon
capture(bamboo and sugar cane)
http://www.abc. <http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/02/2352913.htm>
net.au/news/stories/2008/09/02/2352913.htm
Jinhe
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