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Is it possible to take the stuff from the air and store it in wood? If it was you could sell "CO2 storage furniture". This would make your business model green green.

I cannot find the reference but I remember that a chemists organisation was years ago suggesting one should buy furniture/wood products. (This certainly sounds adventurous and I might not remember this correctly.) Certain types of wood come from controlled wood growing/farming, and those trees grow quite fast. So the bottom line was that they suggested to consider Wood a natural CO2 sink.



Good idea, we could even give it a name like "tree" and we could scale it up to something like a "forest"


Thank you. :D I was thinking that one could additionally enrich the wood. Being a porous material this shouldn't be too difficult, although probably one should watch out that inflammability doesn't increase.


> Is it possible to take the stuff from the air and store it in wood?

Yes it is, it's called "forestry".




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