Friday, January 1, 2021
A superior sequestration system has been compared to wood is carbon framing with timber bamboo. Some experts believe that this is the right time for the world to take advantage of nature’s fastest growing structural fiber.
Eduardo da Costa, a metallurgist briefs on the timber bamboo and it’s recognition and contributions towards the carbon sequestration and ecosystem of nature.
Excerpts:
“Timber bamboo’s fast growth and short annual harvest cycle can speed up carbon sequestration and turn timber bamboo plantations into perpetual carbon farms capable of producing high grade structural fiber. The demand for both carbon dioxide removal and structural fiber is greater than ever! To test the idea that timber bamboo is a superior sequestration option compared to wood, we built the first multi-species/multi-location bamboo growth model and constructed a methodical decision-making framework to compare timber bamboo and wood-based annual carbon flows. This analysis included robust sensitivity analysis, time valuation of carbon flows using hyperbolic discount rates, and a comprehensive comparative metric called the Carbon Benefit Multiple (CBM). The final CBMs showed that timber bamboo, with regular harvests turned into durable products, sequesters between 4.9 and 6 times the carbon that wood does. To conclude, we calculated the cumulative climate change mitigation benefits from various levels of market substitution of durable timber bamboo building products… We found that even marginally substituting the Prime Wall for conventional wood framing in G-7 economies can lower atmospheric CO2 by over 23 gigatonnes over the next 100 years.”
Source: LinkedIn
Tags: carbon framing, ecosystem, Eduardo da Costa, metallurgist, nature;s fastest growing structural fiber, superior sequestration system, Timber Bamboo
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