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Interestingly, pyrolizing biomass produces energy and solid carbon that can be sequestered. So while it produces less energy than burning biomass, it's energy positive and carbon negative if you bury the carbon output.

So gathering and heating biomass as a resource isn't necessarily the wrong general idea.

>> Burning biomass isn’t ideal when we’re dealing with an atmospheric CO2 crisis.

But it might offset other carbon based fuels. I was just trying to think of a use for that massive blob to get rid of it.

CO2 may be a threat down the road, but what if this blob chokes the oceans in 3 to 5 years? It's growing fast.

> atmospheric CO2 crisis

(citation needed)