Carbon farming technology

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7 yrs ago

“The process requires days of drilling on a property for soil samples to determine the initial level of carbon.

Crops and grass are then planted to pull carbon from the air into the ground.

In five years time, the soil is examined again to determine how much carbon they have managed to store, earning the farmers money.

The technology opens up another industry for producers who can sell off the stored carbon in their soil to polluters under the Emissions Trading Scheme.”

From an ABC story

Hope it is viable and beneficial to the planet. Thanks ABC for the story and CarbonLink with their $1 million from the Federal Government. Money well spent I hope.

5 comments

Abby

7 yrs ago

Looks like a great scheme but whilst the humans continue to wage wars and use oil as if it was going out of fashion it will do very little..... the machinery used in testing will probably undo any good that is created.

:( Possibly re the machinery Abby ... I would like to hope that isn't the case but who knows. Anything is better than nothing IMO and most people appear to be doing just that ... nothing that is. Sad.

Abby

7 yrs ago

It is not only the manufacture and operation of the machinery ... there is also the manufacture and operation of the trucks.

Considering we only produce around 1% of CO2 .. whatever we do it is not going change anything.

Unfortunately the scientists have only picked on one measure which is coal ... there is a lot of other pollutants beside the coal ... like farts from cows as well as humans, the on going wars, jetting around the world and driving of motor cars etc.

Abby - I have never believed in doing nothing and watching the world die.

Abby

7 yrs ago

If they used 2 housebricks on all the men it would stop the world from being overpopulated.

:) Yikes Abby ... what's the female equivalent? Love your humour and can't wait to hear your suggestions.

One of mine is ... ban 'yummy mummies' from driving the huge SUVs they seem to love when driving the kids to and from school. Amazing around my way ... enormous diesel vehicles with tiny faces head-down on power-hungry devices.

...and then they park them half a metre from the kerb!

... after they've tried their best to run your vehicle over in their frenzied attempts to enter the shopping centre car park at top speed after school. Busy, busy souls. Scary!!

toot2000 (Sydney)

7 yrs ago

Great story, though it goes over my head a bit, pulling carbon out of the air is hard to get your head around, but sounds like a good idea to me and hope it works.

Pulling carbon from the air is what trees do. All plants actually.

Pity we seem to decimate forests and woodlands, then moan about the consequences Barak. Humans are odd at times IMO.

MICK

7 yrs ago

This is what I always knew THIS GOVERNMENT was going to do to ignore coal carbon pollution. Not solve the problem but rather plant back the tree which were (and still are) removed over the past century.

This government is coal owned so expect it to betray the nation for the interests of its master the coal industry.

I tried to look up what carbon farming is but all I could find was articles by the government departments or conservation groups, both of which support the concept. It may be a great thing although I am reminded of the Hans Christian Andersen story of The Emperor's New Clothes.

Wish The Emperor's New Clothes could restore the planet Old Man but tend to agree that it's all smoke and mirrors from many quarters.

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