(March 6, 2015 at 2:11 am)Void Wrote: Umh.. fire is plastma.
"Umh", fire is also a chemical reaction. At least, that's what the Air Force taught me in fire school, on my way to being a firefighter. It's also what I learned getting my certificate in fire science at college.
Saying it's a plasma is technically true, but irrelevant to your question. That deals with the ionization of atoms, but doesn't address the chemical reactions which happen as something burns.
(March 6, 2015 at 2:11 am)Void Wrote: And I know that climat quotas are built on the principle on storing an equal amount to what you are letting out. Norway, my country, is letting out a lot more gasses then what our international obligations alow us to do. We compensate for this in several ways. For instance, we are financing huge fields of trees in Africa. The whole purpose of growing these trees is to take carbon out of the air, into the tree. Then dig them down into the ground.
I understand what you're getting at. I was answering your first question. Carbon may be sequestered by a tree in one form -- say, carbon dioxide -- but when the tree is burnt, it can release it in a different form -- say, carbon monoxide. That is my point.
The total number of atoms won't change. The chemicals they constitute almost certainly will, because oxidation under heat loosens chemical bonds.
