Tim Taylor, I'll do you one better

Tim Taylor is blogging about carbon capture and storage, and suggests:

Although the biggest effect of CCS technology in the near-term is likely to be focused on these kinds of industrial applications, there's also an intriguing possibility that it can do more through what has become known as BECCS--that is, Bio-Energy and Carbon Capture and Storage. Imagine an energy-generating facility with CCS technology that burns biomass--that is, fuel developed from waste materials produced by forestry, agriculture, and perhaps other sources. Biomass is a renewable resource: in effect, it captures carbon from the atmosphere. If that carbon is captured and stored, and then more biomass is created, and the carbon from that biomass is captured and stored in turn, and so on--the result is a source of energy with negative overall carbon emissions.

Tim, in actuality want humans to control the carbon cycle.  Capture and store the carbon in biomass.   So why are we trying to store CO2?  Grab the biomass and convert that directly into a more storable carbon.  What is in CO2? C and O.  We like O, just dump C.  Start with the carbohydrate from biomass, in particular the lipids in algae.  That is fuel, use it in an endothermic reaction that exudes the carbon is some storable form.  If we can use algae, then we can collect more lipids than we need for fuel, so turn the surplus in carbon consruction material.