Comments on: Synthetic Trees Could Be Environmental CO2 Scrubbers

By: colton

colton — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:32:19 +0000

Damn, I had a similar idea to this. Thought of making something that could filter air in a very similar way. Also I had an idea or proposal that we need to figure out a way to speed up how fast trees grow.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:45:52 +0000

PLEASE RESPOND: what was the program these synthetic tress where on? it was a few years back and it also talked about eco cities and a floating city which revolves the earth from what i can remember. it was a great show and i really want to see it again..

By: Kontroverse « Artificial Trees

Kontroverse « Artificial Trees — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:18:38 +0000

[...] “Love the applied science of synthetic trees, and they may be deemed necessary for our survival, but great hope has been held out to the high CO2 absorption by algae in producing bio-diesel fuels, a soon to rapidly expand technology. Good old fashioned, severe law imposed forest management will help. Growing Hemp (not dope, silly Yank!) in large amounts on semi-arable land will take the pressure off of forests and provide more fiber for paper per acre per year than trees can. Hemp is also a source of edible oil, fiber for plastic car parts, bio-diesel, fiber for clothing and improves poor farmland due to it’s deep roots! It grows wild and naturally in the U.S. and Canada, but was outlawed in the 1930s by unscrupulous government manipulation by cotton growers. Now-a-days, a simple lab test will determine if a farmer is growing dope instead of hemp, so the risk is no longer there, but the law stays on the books out of ignorance and we pay high prices to import hemp from communist China! Are we assholes or what! We gotta change this, and soon, Synthetic trees or not – The air we breathe is at stake!” (Quelle: http://greenupgrader.com/3744/synthetic-trees-could-be-environmental-co2-scrubbers) [...]

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:37:18 +0000

While real trees convert CO2 to oxygen, these synthetic trees store it and then it’s delivered and buried under the sea…is this really the best way for lowering CO2 in our atmosphere? I really think that other alternatives need to be found to convert the CO2 back into O2, rather than just dusting it under the rug. Not good at all. And if there was ever a disturbance causing the CO2 to be released again…

By: Árvores artificiais « Lulaquimico’s Weblog

Árvores artificiais « Lulaquimico’s Weblog — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:04:57 +0000

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By: Zachary Scott

Zachary Scott — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:38:42 +0000

Wait wait WAIT you mean to say that this only pulls the CO2 out of the air not scrubbing it and capturing just the carbon like the system that used LYE? LAME and worthless sure in the other system you have to repalce the lye once its saturated with carbon but it puts the oxygen back into the air this just captures the co2 and locks it away. BAD IDEA.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:02:27 +0000

Carlos should be elected President. Is he the only person who actually sees the big picture? Amen brother! You have true vision.

As far as this invention goes, a much more useful one would be one which uses solar power to convert CO2 into O2 and stores carbon in an aliphatic chain. Even using this for fuel would be perfectly acceptable, because your net contribution to the atmosphere would be zero. Fossil fuel brings carbon from underground and puts it into the air. This method takes carbon from the air and puts it back into the air, all while producing oxygen.

Some smart*** is going to say that this already exists, and it’s called a tree. While true, I expect a synthetic tree could be made more efficient, and when was the last time you saw a car that ran on wood?