Re: [DIYbio] Re: Mediate global warming by engineering lignin in crop plants

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 12:54:30AM -0700, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:

> Rice straw and husks are actually a significant problem right now. It
> degrades very slowly because of the high silica content. So rice growing
> regions wind up with these mountains of rice straw in the fields that take
> ages to degrade. Yes, I guess you could dump it into a landfill somewhere,

Should be gasified, and ash/biochar spread in the fields it comes from
to close the material loop.

> but unless you can get some sort of carbon offsets for that, it's probably
> not economically feasible.

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