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Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws
A wintertime climate change solution
Establishing bounds on the rate of carbon decay and emission from the proposed approach is challenging as most of the relevant literature on near-freezing respiration focuses on soil with a wide variety of microorganisms and varying proportions of inorganic material. An experiment under controlled laboratory conditions measuring the metabolic activity of waterlogged biomass from several species including switchgrass and miscanthus, conducted over a range of temperatures, water content values, and vegetation fragment sizes.\ A field trial using similar vegetative material at a relatively small scale (\(r \approx 10\)m.) with installed piping to verify key assumptions regarding insulation, heat capacity, and thaw rate
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