Green | August 26, 2009 | 5 comments

'Artificial trees' to cut carbon

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8223528.stm

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Engineers say a forest of 100,000 "artificial trees" could be deployed within 10 to 20 years to help soak up the world's carbon emissions.

By Judith Burns
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5 comments // 'Artificial trees' to cut carbon

  • MotherForTruth
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      MotherForTruth  

    • A solution to remove c02 is already available - natural trees. If everyone would plant a tree the problem is gone. Next… There are many other problems in need of solution.

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  

    • plant hemp. its four times better than trees at scrubbing the air. plus when your done with it, you can burn it for electricity instead of coal.

    • 2 years ago
  • krush_productions
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      krush_productions  

    • PLANT REAL TREES!

      simple, effective, 100million+ years of experience cleaning the air.

      What's with all this synthetic shit? Plant a fucking tree.
      Why spend money on something that kind of does the same the thing?

    • 2 years ago
  • msumonica
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      msumonica  

    • unless the tree has the ability to convert that carbon into oxygen (photosynthesis) these people are wasting time and resources that could be better spent replanting REAL trees. It's bad enough we have to pay to drink water, are we going to be taxed on carbon free air as well? I certainly hope this isn't a project that's being publicly funded. i did like the idea however of putting solar panels and wind farms, even the smaller blades along highways and high rise buildings. if they offered a public incentive to build a grid that way, i might even build something just to be a part of that process. while i'm thinking about it, is there a reason why we haven't started a "micro" solar or windfarm industry here. if the larger models cost too much to produce, perhaps they might offset the overhead costs by producing mechanized portable units. if you could power the production facility with this technology, you might even find a bigger selling point.

    • 2 years ago
  • capolia
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      capolia  

    • Very cool but surely we could do the same with real tree's? One artificial tree might remove more co2 but real tree's would contribute more to the overall ecology of the area, increasing wildlife, other plantlife etc. Plus real tree's cost less I bet!!!

    • 2 years ago
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