Forum dedicated to increasing awareness of green living through beneficial dialogue.

wow synthetic trees.. I've never thought of that. but that's a good idea hope it works out

Yeah, that's really a new and interesting idea.
What about the production and operational cost of the 'trees'? It is more efficient to maintain those synthetic trees or to grow the real trees. And also, I think the synthetic trees will take lots of space.

Nothing will replace the real thing... But these synthetic trees can be deployed in a matter of 12 months rather than 12 years.

That's wonderful. I think I will 'grow' one nearby my house. The only drawback is that the synthetic trees don't produce fruit But none is impossible. Who now sometime in the future we can harvest apples from the trees

or more like harvest spaghetti strings from trees well that would be a synthetic food

This is certainly an innovative idea, although the term "synthetic trees" is a bit misleading. As long as it isn't used as a way to justify the polluter's continued activities, I'm interested in what they can do...

lets hope they are not so successful that the powers that be decide we don't need real trees any more, and stop protecting the rainforests...

I think it sounds like a great idea. I expect that the erection of these would meet with the same complaints from people concerned about the visual appeal of the countryside, in a similar way that they opposed some wind turbine sites.

300X180 metal,or Plastic composition powered by electricity to "suck" air through it... (passive collection couldn't remove the projected amounts) Makes me wonder... should we be trying to sequester the carbon we are releasing or should we be trying to reduce the amount of carbon we are releasing. Sequestering carbon is simply an attempt to continue the status quo instead of dealing with the real problem which is that we are creating an excess of CO2. Reducing emissions is what we need to do not burying what we are making now.

Really do you want to have hundreds of 300 foot tall "trees" taking the crap we are putting into the air out? What about the real trees why not protect them? why not stop creating the waste? The technology is here to make changes in how we do things and to be better for the environment. Why should we continue with the old ways and try to mitigate the damage when we can easily change how we do things and not have to mitigate the damage? Makes no sense to me.