Comments on: Annotated BBWTE Cover

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:53:28 +0000

Sadly, in our world, the conditions for the emergence of oil and coal are no longer present.
A little thing called evolution put a spanner in the works.

I say sadly, because those would probably be pretty good forms of sequestration: Want not, waste not.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:50:27 +0000

Dancy sharkboy is a lovely sight.
Joie de vivre, distilled.

By: Felix - Scouter of Worlds

Felix - Scouter of Worlds — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:49:08 +0000

Well coal was sometimes trees but more generally carboniferous swamps and tree sized ferns are not really wood more like an oversized plant stem. Oil was sea bottom muck, the decomposed remains of marine snow settling on the seabed and building thick dense layers of organic soup full of bacteria and viruses.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 22:29:51 +0000

I doubt they took the time to find some lush forest and picked some individual trees, spread over a larger area, in favour of getting whatever vegetation was able to hold on to its roots at the edge of this desert. That’s not going to regrow by next year.

Technically, most of the fossil coal and oil used to be wood at some point. Might take a few million years to regrow, but technically also carbon neutral.

By: Aula

Aula — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:18:55 +0000

“it’s not remotely carbon neutral”

What? Burning wood is carbon neutral by definition. (OK, so technically you need to make sure new trees will grow in place of the ones you burn, but come on.)