I have been saying for years now that we should be using more timber in our buildings, rather than steel, as timber is an affordable and efficient way to store carbon.
Here is a link,

http://www.forestlearning.edu.au/sites/default/files/resources/documents/3_Carbon%20and%20its%20storage%20in%20forest%20and%20wood%20products.pdf

Then, if we legislate for the use of Australian timber only, jobs will be created and carbon will be captured and stored and, depending on the selection of timber, carbon can be stored for up to 100 years.

Surely this is a viable option for carbon capture/storage.

You will create another problem for future years : storing : The only way to fix it is not create it. There is no quick fix, just pushing it aside to make more room for more carbon.

rehctub,

<< use of Australian timber only>>

Actually the hottest environmental protection,carbon reducing,sustainability idea overseas at present is the proposition that we need to access supplies from local sources. And it makes a lot of sense especially with bulky items like timber.

Our own OZ based environmentalists haven't caught up with this thinking yet--and I'd suggest are not likely to run with it, since it means supporting Oz industry and workers and they are *ded set agen anythin* that seems to support OZ prosperity.

Come on rehctub, to do that we would have to unlock much of Tasmania, just as the Greens have managed to [cock] sorry lock, it up nice & solid.

Hell, there would be so much work down there, even the greenies might have to do something useful for gods sake.

Tasmania might even become self supporting, can you imagine that, & destroy the efforts of thousands of greenies over these many years. Imagine, they might even be able to run a paper mill on the off cuts.

I like your idea, but while the sight of greenies committing suicide by setting fire to themselves in protest, might warms the cockles of my heart, & give the media something other than global warming to scream about, I'm not sure the general population is ready for it.

Dear rehctub,

The Australian housing industry uses timber extensively.
Timber in housing or any other construction creates
fire-risks which releases carbon.

Multi-storey buildings using timber wouldn't stand up.

How do you see the use of timber instead of steel?

rehctub,

An interesting concept which I found educational, thank you. The Greens Watermelon Party is out of date and misdirected as usual. Any wonder the electorate is exasperated by the Greens. All social agenda and environmentalism is just a convenient cloak for dabbling in social policy.

Laminated strand and laminated veneer timber constructions is the way ahead. See here.

<Green Cities: Michael Green on the power of timber
7 March 2011

One of the biggest challenges facing designers and construction companies today is the selection of building materials for minimum environmental impact. In his keynote address at Green Cities, Michael Green, principal of Canadian architectural firm mgb Architecture+Design, argued strongly for timber as a superior alternative to concrete and steel, from the suburban home to the tallest high-rise tower.

World housing and climate change are the two great issues of our time and they are interconnected said Mr Green. Given the number of houses that will be needed over the next few decades, if we continue to build the way we are today, particularly in the developing world, an escalation of climate change would be inevitable.

“The reality is three billion people will need an affordable house in the next 20 years. That equates to 40 per cent of the world,” he said. “That means we have to build 100,000 new homes every single day for 20 years, which is obviously something people aren’t getting their heads around in terms of how we’re going to do it.”
..
“Today 50 per cent of the world lives in urban environments and we expect that to go to 70 per cent by 2050. So obviously that scale requires another way of thinking about a solution.”
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“To reduce global carbon we have to reduce carbon emissions and remove carbon from the system. The reality is the only thing we build with day in and day out that does that is wood.”
http://www.thefifthestate.com.au/archives/21410/