The technology trying to make farming more sustainable - BBC News 

So instead of helping gardeners, farmers build all sorts of compost, which in turn removes carbon from that atmosphere, these people are using far more energy to produce pellets? Anaerobic heating to get anything from a high carbon source like trees is a doubling of the wasted opportunity. Farm lands are being depleted so much, some of it becomes so barren weeds won't grow,that wood fibre could massively change the health of dirt, make it viable soil again. I don't get this one, it's done more for patent and profit than the CO2 reductions.

This is stupid. Just mulch it and rake it out to a thickness of 3 inches on the forest floor so it can deter weed growth and decompose naturally without being a fire risk.

The reason carbon credits don't work is this..... The Title is miss leading... most farmers use the biomass from previous crops as fertiliser... the forests uses it as fertiliser...... your just degrading the soil with this process and using more resources...

The middle class forever avoiding the fact they are going to have to consume less.

Sick of two words which have come to mean nothing… Sustainable and Community

Quite expensive and labor intensive to remove such a little amount of carbon from the atmosphere. Is anyone else seeing through this scam?

I have an idea - how about refining the oil into jet fuel and not asking airplane passengers to pay for “carbon offsets”? Long term we won’t solve the climate crisis with niche projects that depend on a few rich, idealistic people.

Why are they not turning this into biochar and actually improving soil with it while storing the carbon for many hundreds of years? That would have a much greater effect on the climate than pumping it into geological storage.

They never considered digging a hole and burying it? It's just free nutrients for the earth to regenerate, natural fertiliser essentially. Making biofuel or storing it like they suggest is not bad, but it is suboptimal because the process itself is still going to result in more losses.

Unwanted biomass? That's crazy, to that sounds like a good source biomass for things that need biomass. Wood pellets for one that can be used for heating.

"A tree lives for 100y then decomposes where as this sits in the ground for 10,000 years."... Um, So how much does it cost to plant a tree? and dont trees make oxygen as well as help keep soil together during heavy rain and flooding? seems like a convoluted complex idea to 'quickly' but not cheaply burry other companies carbon output for a much higher cost than planting heaps of trees etc to soak up that carbon and produce oxygen as well as provide habitat for wildlife and help with soil erosion

That is the most ecologically ignorant video I have ever seen, and I am seriously shocked that the BBC did not consult an ecologist, who would have immediately pointed out what was wrong with it. Let's start off. Dead wood in a forest ecosystem, is not unwanted detritus or debris. Dead wood is one of the most important components of a woodland ecosystem. Don't take my word for it, Google "dead wood forest ecosystems" etc. In fact, a huge problem in forest ecosystems is excess tidiness, and the removal of too much dead wood. Again, don't take my word for it, Google is your friend. The idea that you can reduce wildfires by removing dead wood etc, is naive in the extreme, not understanding the scale of the habitat. It can work at small scale with fire breaks, for small scale fires, but not at the larger scale. Then I want to deal with some of the other ecologically ignorant comments in the video. One advocate claims the carbon storage is far more effective, than a tree, which will only live 100 years. Well in California, there are trees that are 3,000 years old. it is claimed other carbon sequestration doesn't give long term storage. Let me introduce you to peatland. Whilst peatland only covers less than 3% of the Earth's land surface, it stores several times more carbon than all the world's vegetation, including all the forests put together. What is more we are recklessly damaging much of this peatland, and are failing to restore it. Restoring the active peat forming surface, then transforms that peat bog to net sequestering of carbon. British peat bogs, contain peat that is up to 10,000 years old, other peatland around the world, including on permafrost, much older. That is long term storage. What is more, coal is fossilised peat, much from the Devonian. That is about 420 million to 360 million years ago. What is more, that coal would still be storing carbon deep below the ground if we weren't digging it up and burning it.

There is a easy solution just make small wood chips from it , mix it in soil and it's will decompose 🖖 Nature will recycle it

Aa Really brought home how bad the situation is when the guy at the end expressed gratitude for simply having enough space to stand up inside his shared apartment.

The Santa Cruz mountains would benefit from having goat herds to manage undergrowth, and stream restoration to bring beaver back to the area, or have it turned over to indigenous land management. These strategies work, and are cheap to implement. I bet the Forest Manager they talked to would be more optimistic about that, if she got the support and resources to do it at scale. Heating up compostables to convert them with an energy intensive process into oil, must have quite a carbon footprint of its own. In a Hydrothermal Carbonization system, it uses a lot of energy, but produces more energy. Here they are just pumping the outputs into the ground, without generating any energy. Where does the energy that they are using for their "secret process" come from? Coal? Once they started talking about how they are going to pump it into the ground, alarm bells went off. What former wells will they be using? Will they make sure that the place they are putting this oil does not interact with ground water in any way? The injection wells from Fracking has ruined small family and farm wells all over the country with chemicals that leaked from the Fracking wells nearby. How will they insure their process doesn't create similar problems? They are injecting foreign material into an already damaged void, just like fracking does. This process in the video looks like an expensive and carbon intensive bad joke.

What about the biodiversity benefits of dead wood and other natural detritus? Aren't they removing a crucial element in the ecology of forests? Maybe it would be better to put in more ponds, wetlands and beavers to do their magic on the waterways that go through forests?

Goats will eliminate this, goats eat the shrubs and brush, which don’t become fire tinder.

We need to make BBC more sustainable. 22+k employees and over £2bn in assets seem way too excessive and likely produces an enormous carbon footprint.

My TV LIEcence was not sustainable, so we binned the BBC a decade ago.

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Planting trees is still the most efficient and cost effective way of reducing carbon. Just plant more giant trees that live more than 100 years. Surely there are immortal trees.

What about going back to what Native Americans did when they had control over the land? Native Americans maintained the land with controlled fires and after the colonisers made it illegal, forest fires got more common.

Kind of dumb. I remember there were times where they had for cars (pickups) a kind of oven on the back and used wood as fuel. Why not use it like that, instead of burning it?? There are companies that use all kind of organic materials in a kind of bioreactor to create (through bacteria) natural gas - methane, that is used for energy etc. Why not using it to process it further to organic materials that can be used for lubrification of machines, pre-products for pharmaceutical and chemical products? I mean many people dont get it, that crude oil is not only used for gas/fuel! All machines on the world without lubrificants are often dead machines. And for this You need crude oil. Also for all plastics, coatings, paints etc. But producing something for 4000 Dolaar and then pump it in the earth?? Dumb

Far cheaper to keep the understory clear using goats surely? Or produce biochar from the brash to improve agriculture.

The title put it right. They are „trying“. But I can also try becoming a professional basketball player and fail completely, just like this technology.

Everyone needs to think about what the population is going to say my research is to protect forests across the globe we need to build about 2 billion protected wetlands across the whole globe and plant forests around it that would absorb at least 200 million tones of carbon out of the atmosphere

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what about the gas from the wood? wouldn't it be better to extract the gas and use it. what is the pollution of converting it to a oil and what is the pollution of bearing it in the ground. this could be a lot worse then just the CO2 natural release.

they're burying artificial petroleum? that's the goofiest shit I've ever heard! for wood chips in particular, there is a simpler and cheaper option: make charcoal (usually referred to as "biochar") and bury it by mixing it into agricultural soil. charcoal has a lot of potential for soil improvement through its spongy consistency and large surface area that's popular with soil microbes and plant roots, and it remains inert as carbon for hundreds to thousands of years depending on the depth of the layer (it might be decomposed slowly at the surface). integrating charcol into soil was used traditionally by some indigenous farmers in south america, with the result that you can now find the places where they used to live based on the fact that the general area only has humous layers of a few centimeters due to the tropical climate not building much soil (lack of an autumn season does not produce yearly flushes of leaves that would then be notentirely decomposed over the winter in temperate climates) but the old settlements have humous layers up to a few meters thick, and the soil is still great for agriculture. traditionally, that soil also contains pottery shards and a lot of human shit-based compost, but that stuff doesn't have to be copied directly, the interesting part is the way charcoal is very suitable for bulking up highly fertile soil. particularly in places that are short on fertile soil (many tropical regions where farming is done by slash and burn because of the low soil fertility), charcoal soil building could both sequester carbon quite well (more permanently than in trees), and also be directly economically beneficial by producing long term agriculturally usable land.

Cant they just give it to IKEA? Im sure they can use it

Maybe they can collect it to use as fertiliser too

They lost me when they said they would pumping into the ground in old oil fields,

There is one obvious thing no one talks about. Earths atmosphere is less than 1% CO2 (.04% precisely), considering plants are reliant on CO2 we may very well be CO2 deficient.

This is not s sustainable method to follow. The cost is really high, but appreciate the efforts put in for a greener earth.

Skip the expensive extraction part. Make it a pulp like water mix and inject that directly. Could use sea water to save water.

I don’t get how a non reusable oil is a great idea. Why tf aren’t we turning this all into free compost?

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Stop selling off for allotments and city people. Save the farms. Keep em in the family!

This has all the markings of a "carbon credit" scam.

We must grow crops ONLY for humans to eat. Feeding precious grains to livestock is insanity.

better title: The Technology trying to store unwanted biomass underground.

So, in the places where oil has been drilled out, why not fill the void with this stuff instead of water?

But the tree can be used too make doors and windows and furniture you need heating as well deosnt add up for me

Good try

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Sustainable is a asoloute state you can grade how sustainable it is. It’s either sustainable or not simple

Oh don't worry; it's no longer growing back like it used to, due to lack of water.

Ridiculously overcomplicated and energy intensive. Just make soil of it with giant hugelkulture farms. Seriously. Make something useful that helps feed humans and restore soil carbon levels, without needing massive energy outlay for pulverizing and heating the material. Idiotic overengineering like this damages the credibility of the whole sector and wastes valuable resources.

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any infos how woodland management in Europe is dealing with undergrowth in their forests? most of the forests are managed to generate money by harvesting mature trees. what happens to the rest?

Before th eeuropeans invaded the Americas.. there were millions of migratory bisons and other herbs that ate the grasses..

I don't see why burying it without processing isn't the better option.

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Ask farmer Bill Gates for suggestions... He likes to burn and control crops!

Wood pellets then wodlice farms to turn it into food for fish/livestock/poultry surely?

Farming sustainable? You mean the farming that has been going on for thirty thousand years?

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This is ridiculous. Just dig a hole and dump those plant wastes

The simple fact is we dithered and moaned and denied for far too long

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What a joke: Use the pellets for heating, end of story.

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Get farmers out of the farm and into IT markets.

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They need to plant Moringa

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The stupidest idea in a long time.

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why not burn them dirrectly to cook food or make eletricity or run a steam engine. It is farm more cheap.

just bury it

Wow what a waste of time.

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Won't this have a negative effect on the environment?

"A tree lives for 100y then decomposes where as this sits in the ground for 10,000 years."... Um, So how much does it cost to plant a tree? and dont trees make oxygen as well as help keep soil together during heavy rain and flooding? seems like a convoluted complex idea to 'quickly' but not cheaply burry other companies carbon output for a much higher cost than planting heaps of trees etc to soak up that carbon and produce oxygen as well as provide habitat for wildlife and help with soil erosion