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You wrote it like „diesel trees” would be working in a way where you simply chop it down and put it in your gas tank. Making and then using „diesel trees” woul

by ozim 1y ago

You wrote it like „diesel trees” would be working in a way where you simply chop it down and put it in your gas tank. Making and then using „diesel trees” would definitely require special equipment and manufacturing pipelines that might be the same cost or more than those for solar panels.

dmurray 1y ago
It's my science fiction story, so I'm going to say the tree we engineered for this was the sugar maple: you can put a tap in it and collect highly pure diesel fuel with a pre-Columbian level of technology.
- arghwhat 1y ago
  No no, you integrate the pump directly into the tree. Skip the farms, just plant the trees at the station in place of the current pumps.
- anvandare 1y ago
  Forest fires would definitely get a lot more exciting.
  - ozim 1y ago
    Maybe that's quite the reason why we didn't do it :)