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(Sweden) Christmas tree wood used to build world's tallest wooden wind turbine (www.envirolink.org)
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This is probably the best use of Christmas trees (though it’s up for debate whether it’s a good idea to cut down spruce trees to begin with).

Side note: it was hard to find this story on a website that’s not exclusive access or enshitified. Even the company who built the turbine (#Modvion) has a tor-hostile website themselves.

According to the BBC Newsroom they use glue instead of bolts to hold it together.

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[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Even when trees die they take years to decompose, and not all of the CO2 captured by a tree will be rereleased as CO2, as the tree is decomposing the organisms consumeing the trees will incorporate some of the carbon into themselves, approximately 4%of the tree's weight.