Flower Power: Genetic Modification Could Amply Boost Plants' Carbon-Capture and Bioenergy Capacity - Scientific American - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 13 May 14Human activities currently add about nine gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere yearly. Photosynthetic organisms on land and in the ocean absorb about five of those gigatons through the natural uptake of CO2, leaving to humans the task of dealing with the rest. But no matter how much carbon there is, capturing it and preventing it from reentering the atmosphere is an immense engineering challenge; even today's best technology is orders of magnitude less effective than photosynthesis at trapping atmospheric carbon.