CO2 Recovery in Managed Forests

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Trees are Solar Batteries - they charge as they grow and discharge when they rot

CO2 Recovery by forests is a function of considerable debate. All forests are made primarily of CO2 and water combined to form sugar. The sugar is then reformed to make wood. Wood is protected as long as the tree is healthy and undamaged. All carbon stored as wood is very vulnerable to attack by fungi and bacteria. Such an attack releases the carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2 and water. CO2 cycling is only accomplished if humans enter the cycle described above for some of their energy and materials needs. If those needs are met by non-renewable energy sources, i.e.: most plastics, glass, aluminum, steel and masonry, the energy expended simply releases unrecyclable CO2 into the atmosphere much that is not able to be taken up by normal recovery processes and adds to the atmospheric load of CO2 already present.

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