SO this and a few coal plants upwind huh? No substitute for the real thing. A real forest's ecological services go far beyond mere carbon sequestration...
Synthetic trees could purify air
By Molly Bentley, BBC News |
 The invention is confined to paper so far |
But the synthetic tree proposed by Dr Klaus Lackner does not much resemble the leafy variety.
"It looks like a goal post with Venetian blinds," said the Columbia University physicist, referring to his sketch at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver, Colorado.
But the synthetic tree would do the job of a real tree, he said. It would draw carbon dioxide out of the air, as plants do during photosynthesis, but retain the carbon and not release oxygen.
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