Avoid global warming. Go Carbon Nuetral

[Renew Deal]

Well, it's a concept. Check it out:

http://www.futureforests.com/explainmore/gocarbonneutral.asp

[lapfog_1]

1. Ok environmentalists...

Whatever happened to the German professor and his radical idea of
grinding up granite rock into a fine powder and scattering this
on the forest floor, especially around freshly planted "slow growth"
trees. It was supposed to make forests grow up to 2 to 4 times faster
given the same rainfall, etc.

I read about this years and years ago, but it seems to have disappeared.

Was it debunked?

[enki23]

2. if ground granite were an economical source of fertilizer

we'd be using it by now. for farming.

god... that idea is ludicrous in so many ways...

[BeFree]

3. Yeah, but

But when you process the wood, carbon is released into the atmosphere.
What's funny is that the foresters claim there are now more forest lands than a 100 years ago. Yet CO₂ has been increasing.

Future forests is a nice concept, but it's a band-aid at best.

Granite: Granite is a fossil of limestone. Granite, I would think, make an excellent fertilizer. Costly? I dunno...

[enki23]

4. dear god. no it isn't

re: "granite is a fossil of limestone"

[BeFree]

5. Geez, yer right, enki

I confused granite with marble. Marble is a fossil of limestone, IIRC. Thanks, wherever you are, for pointing that out.

Interesting about ground granite, or other rocks being used as fertilizer... most gravel roads have an abundance of green at the edges. It could be that a chemical alteration favorable to plant growth could be taking place with the continued erosion of the rock. Ph would be one alteration.