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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Yes, rotting plant matter returns all the carbon to the air - by definition. That is part of the cycle of life, and proves the laws of conservation.
...I'd like to try a Peltier to generate some electricity.
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To continue the hijacked tangent thought; that means carbon in dead plant matter is only sequestered long-term if it somehow immediately gets buried, is deprived of oxygen, and never decomposes? That means fossil fuels are the extremely small portion of previous plant / animal matter that expired, but did not decompose, and instead was subjected to high pressure without oxygen?
...the Peltier would be neat, although inefficient. I played around with one back in the Pentium II days as a means of forced cooling of the CPU, but it was terribly inefficient and generated massive amounts of heat in the process.