SINKING RICH For that very expensive feeling. Former Vice President Al Gore and Sir Richard Branson might like to entice you to spend time thinking of an original idea - or find an idea in nature and re-engineer it. Research, calculations diagrams models bugs time money investors solicitors - long story to market - hope someone buys it - someone does - it works! but a week later someone comes along with something better - like releasing programmable nano-robots into the atmosphere that rearrange atoms... A global solution deserves a global answer: Treat Soil as you wood a forest. When flying, you can off-set your carbon emission by buying trees - except in this case it's soil. Pay farmers to sequest and store CO2 in their soil, just as we do now for trees.Farmers will build a practical and economic large scale CO2 sequestration system that can make a difference. Healthy soils sequest CO2 - the planet breathes - the planet cools. i). sequest CO2 in the soil with deep rooted perennials ii). grow crops for consumption and/or bio-fuel iii). enrich the soil. The farmer expands his potential with a new economic system increasing sources of income whilst reducing outgoing costs with energy-saving production techniques. THE TREE which makes the eco system go round not only sequests CO2, but performs so many other associated and interconnected ecological tasks you'd have buckley's chance of replacing with a single machine... and it stands perfectly still, just add sun and water. If one considers an invention that - "just sequests CO2" - that may do the job as far as Al Gore and Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Earth Challenge - and that may relax Global Warming, which is fine, but our efforts to fix the problem let's look down the road, And what do we see is Species Extinction. Species need a diverse healthy ecology - not less CO2 - species need more trees. Without the tree eco systems collapse. The tree is the backbone of ecology. It stands to reason the new and improved mechanical tree couldn't be replicated deployed or managed within the ten year window-of-opportunity available. A mechanical CO2 air-cleaner, yes. But cleaning the CO2 out of the atmosphere only, will leave us with the same problems we are facing now. Soil depletion.  By employing renewable techniques, the CO2 is still cleaned from the air, AND the soil is enriched. Which makes me wonder where the mechanical tree will put its' carbon. "Soil carbon sequestration is an important and immediate sink for removing atmospheric carbon dioxide and slowing global warming". Montana State University

Renewable Ecology farmers use deep-rooted perennials that sequest CO2 - which nourishes the soil - whilst also produce foods and bio-fuels - thus the replenishing soil eco cycle becomes a renewable resource.

Aaron Edmonds Australia Nuts - World First - The Sandlewood Tree and Nut farm.