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Originally Posted by redpoint5
On average, what percentage of carbon is permanently captured after a plant dies?
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Nothings permanent ..
In a few hundred million years it might become a fossil fuel .. if not extracted one way or the other .. given enough time (billions of years) eventually tectonic activity will recycle the carbon back out.
We're just concentrating it .. by taking carbon that was going to be locked up in fossil fuels for hundreds of million of years , and instead we're pulling it out much faster , ahead of that 'natural' schedule.