• Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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    11 months ago

    The process may be a bit more complex than I understood, but my understanding is that the gist of it is to “burn” plant stuff in a way that doesn’t create carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases. One way of doing that is to use a chamber flooded with nitrogen or similar inert gas. No oxygen means carbon can’t bind to two oxygen atoms to create carbon dioxide.

    • Surdon@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      I’m confused, how can you ‘burn’ anything without oxygen? Burn literally means to oxidize