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It's disappointing to me that planting trees is the best we can come up with. One would hope that we could work on a 10x, technological solution.
by vowelless 8y ago
It's disappointing to me that planting trees is the best we can come up with. One would hope that we could work on a 10x, technological solution.
- coryrc 8y agoIt's generating useful material for us and fully biodegradable at the end of its lifecycle, and even self-replicates. What's not to love?
- gizmo686 8y ago> What's, not to love? Biodegradable. That means that at the end of its life it decomposes and returns its recourses to the environment. Normally this is good, but not when the goal is to remove a resource from the environment.
- sp332 8y ago"If you write out the basic facts of trees, but framed as technology, it sounds like impossible sci-fi nonsense. Self-replicating, solar-powered machines that synthesize carbon dioxide and rainwater into oxygen and sturdy building materials on a planetary scale." - @CryptoNature
- darkerside 8y agoThis is the ultimate NIH. Discarding the solution because it was invented by nature and not the human race!