So now we need to plant 50,000ha of trees a year, I think that comes out
at about 1% of the arable land each year, how long before they can start
being felled, 50 years? What will that do to food prices?

On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:00:12 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 11:07:34 +0100, Andy Burns
wrote:

So now we need to plant 50,000ha of trees a year, I think that comes out
at about 1% of the arable land each year, how long before they can start
being felled, 50 years? What will that do to food prices?

Surely you don't want to fell them until they've reached their mature
size and stopped growing, i.e. stopped absorbing significant amounts
of CO2. Quite what you do with them then is anyone's guess.

You build furniture, buildings or similar out of them, build things
that aren't very likely to rot, be burned or otherwise release the CO2
locked within them?

If you
burn them, you just put all that CO2 back into the atmosphere, which
rather defeats the object of the exercise.

Quite.

In the olden days, we used up most of our oak forests building ships,
but as many of those were warships, they didn't necessarily lock the
carbon away for long. ;-(

Of course, if the Gov was really serious about reducing CO2 emissions,
it would build lots more nuclear power stations. Instead, it just
faffs about creating a regulatory system so complex that nuclear power
costs a fortune, and promoting trees.

;-(


Cheers, T i m

Chris Hogg wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

So now we need to plant 50,000ha of trees a year

Surely you don't want to fell them until they've reached their mature
size and stopped growing, i.e. stopped absorbing significant amounts
of CO2. Quite what you do with them then is anyone's guess.

Since there will be presumably no coal flue ash to make 'breeze' blocks
from, and gas fired brick kilns might be outlawed along with boilers,
maybe we'll be using more wood for houses by then?

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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So now we need to plant 50,000ha of trees a year, I think that comes out
at about 1% of the arable land each year, how long before they can start
being felled, 50 years?

Lot less than that with the right trees.

What will that do to food prices?

Depends on where you have the trees. Not much if its in the wilds of
scotland.

Not that it makes a lot of sense to go that route...

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 05:23:11 +1000, Swer, better known as cantankerous
trolling senile geezer Rodent Speed, wrote:

So now we need to plant 50,000ha of trees a year, I think that comes out
at about 1% of the arable land each year, how long before they can start
being felled, 50 years?

Lot less than that with the right trees.

What will that do to food prices?

Depends on where you have the trees. Not much if its in the wilds of
scotland.

Not that it makes a lot of sense to go that route...

Now ALSO an expert in trees in Scotland, senile asshole from Oz?

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