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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ECEC@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Phegan@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why is this on the self hosting community

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    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Its apart of a Watercooling setup

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Self hosting a tree

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        sigh take your upvote

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    • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The water is hosting algae

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Looks like one of them fish tank PC cases that are apparently a thing.

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    • eskimofry@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      self hosting is anti-capitalist, so is being against urban brutalism.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I can kinda see that, yeah. 👍

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  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t spirulina more effective for capturing carbon than trees? And also you can eat it in the way you don’t normally eat trees? Trees are great and all but why do you want me to be angry about algae?

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  • danielquinn@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had the same reaction until I read this.

    TL;DR: it’s 10-50x more efficient at cleaning the air and actually generates both electricity and fertiliser.

    Yes, it would be better to just get rid of all the cars generating the pollution in the first place and putting in some more trees, but there are clear advantages to this.

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I appreciate Rebecca Watson’s opinion. Watched the 6min video, now convinced 👍

      Also learned a new term: kneejerk cynicism

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How long does it take to break even from the pollution and electricity spent to make and install these?

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      • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        5

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    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It provides fertilizer but needs “some food”.

      How much food and what is it?

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s just some circle of life stuff, fertilizer, carbon dioxide, light in, The algae produces more algae. It loads up on a bunch of carbon, some of the bloom dies off, by removing it, you take the carbon with it along with some of the fertilizer components. You add a little more fertilizer in and the algae blooms more and sucks up more carbon dioxide.

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      • goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        How much food and what is it?

        …Did we mention it doubles as a convenient dumping ground for mob snitches?

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  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I want to say deployment time is faster with the algae, you can also get hydrogen from the biomass

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I like how everyone is acting like it is normal to have this in self hosted

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I love this about lemmy.
      Like someone stumbling into the wing house and still being welcomed.
      It’s a lot more informal and relaxed than on the piss page of the Internet.

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  • BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gooooood Morning Night City!

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Algae in water doesn’t burn like trees

      Checkmate commies !

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because there’s no serious answers being given even though there are at least 2:

    • trees have roots, roots ruin any nearby human infrastructure. You’ll note this says “in urban environments” and that there are trees nearby, so this is probably the big reason
    • trees need maintenance, which costs money. this is a stupid reason imo, but it’s one nonetheless
    • algae is cool, ok?
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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Algae is also more efficient per cubic meter, if I understand correctly.

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      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not just more efficient, vastly more efficient. Algae is 10-50 times faster at processing CO² than trees are. Some algae can be up to 400x as efficient.

        It’s just not as “nice” to look at, we usually associate algae with growth in unsafe bodies of water like bogs, etc. versus a nice clean pool or even a maintained pond.

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    • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      On the other hand, algae do not produce shade, not sure if it filters atmospheric pollutants, and trees provide all sort of other services to the local ecosystem.

      Maybe this invention can be used on places where trees cannot lives, but I’d still take a city with trees over a city full of green tanks.

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Maybe this invention can be used on places where trees cannot lives, but I’d still take a city with trees over a city full of green tanks.

        These in the spots where trees once stood but were too destructive & trees everywhere else imo. Cool tech future AND trees, plus these are benches too it looks like

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Don’t forget pollen and seeds.

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      • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Bees need pollen. We need bees and you can self host them.

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh yeah

        I’m one of those elites who don’t have allergies so I tend to forget 😎😎😎

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    • zeca@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      trees dont ruin ANY human infrastructure. But the usual urban infrastructure isnt well thought out enough exist around trees. But smarter urbanism is possible and in fact does exist.

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        trees dont ruin ANY human infrastructure

        I think you mean all, as this reads more like “nuh uh, trees don’t ruin anything”

        But smarter urbanism is possible and in fact does exist.

        And those are not the norm, so for places that don’t plan to just destroy what’s already there and start anew, this is an option

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      • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People ruin nature’s infrastructure

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    • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “let’s uproot all these trees and invade this space. and when the roots of the few remaining trees do what they are supposed to do, let’s blame them for ‘ruining’ human infrastructure!”

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bet that algae box will need maintenance too :-)

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      • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Every 6 months half of it gets removed, to use as fertiliser, and it is refilled with tap water and some feed.

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  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How do I self host these? I tried docker run liquidtrees it didn’t work

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    • sorter_plainview@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Try

      docker run liquidtrees:micro-algae

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      • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think there’s an alpine build too if your system has low oxygen levels

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      • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Instructions unclear, installed Liquid Swords.

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    • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      git clone aur.archlinux.org/liquidtrees.git && cd liquidtrees && makepkg
      or
      add repo.30p87.de/private/archlinux as a repo, and sudo pacman -Sy liquidtrees

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      • 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just tried this and my DE got replaced with Sway and now there’s algae oozing out of my keyboard

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    • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re not stupid; its not in docker. Check apt.

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  • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    homeless people find sitting in the shade of trees to be comfortable, and the city whole point of urban design is to make them uncomfortable and to suffer

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1. Wrong community, maybe? Lol

    2. iirc, algae are better oxygen producers per units of mass and volume, so a tank full of algae might actually be better than a tree. One issue though is that trees can grow on open ground, while algae require a tank to be built, most likely negating the economic benefits. Also, trees are more aesthetically pleasing.

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    • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What? You don’t like future jelly tree?

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  • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Short answer: the bank won’t give your shiny new tree-planting business a loan as easily as it will to a “liquid tank tree replacement” one.

    Long answer:

    • Trees take time to grow
    • Trees need to be planted
    • Trees make shade
    • Animals like birds and insects like bees and mosquitos like to live next to them
    • Trees don’t need electricity
    • Trees take in heat radiated from the pavement
    • Trees don’t look cool

    While algae are more efficient at turning CO2 into oxygen in theory, in practice algae don’t have a good climate in such a tank (no oxygen without ventilation, i.e. constant electricity and they get cooked through the glass).

    All in all, more of a gimmick than anything.

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    • urandom@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Trees don’t look cool

      You take that back!

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      • eskimofry@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        was about to furiously reply… but yeah. I LOVE green spaces

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    • exedore6@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Roots limit where they can grow without messing up infrastructure.

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      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah this is a big problem I see often. You have underground utilities? Tree planting becomes a huge thing. And in a lot of these walkable areas, places you’d want trees, folks tend to also prefer not to have the wires overhead with telephone poles everywhere, and so they’ve been backed into a corner.

        I did just sit through a presentation by my local environmental commission where they addressed the issue. The solution seems to be trees bred for the specific environment: deciduous provides shade but doesn’t drop a lot of leaves; can grow tall but the root ball grows in a certain way so as not to interrupt sidewalks and utilities; hearty and resilient. I can’t recall the trees, but they were described as essentially not naturally occuring.

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Aren’t like half of those bullet points positives? Also in addition to what you said once you got a tree you got a tree, those tanks need constant maintenence and cycling which I doubt anyone is going to bother with for more than a year after installing them.

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      • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The comment you replying to was trying to not so subtly point out this is a business plot and little else. Nobody is going to pay a subscription fee to have a tree in front of their business, but they might cough up money for a third party to maintain a tank of algae out front if it was sold right

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
      • Trees take time to grow

      Sure, of course not removing literally all of them in the first place is preferable but hindsight is 20/20 I guess. And good things come to those who wait.

      • Trees need to be planted

      True, planting a tree seems a bit easier than installing a weird tank though, despite time to grow.

      • Trees make shad

      Good.

      • Animals like birds and insects like bees and mosquitos like to live next to them

      Good.

      • Trees don’t need electricity

      Good.

      • Trees take in heat radiated from the pavement

      Good.

      • Trees don’t look cool

      Bullshit.

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  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s probably cheaper in the long run to self host a tree instead, unless you live in an apartment with absolutely no green space. But I’d rather get a VPF and host a tree there if I had too

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    • hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Problem with VPFs is irrigation throttling, or lack thereof. Most people are cool, but I’ve heard of people hosting exotics which just max out downstream 24/7. Plus everyone has root access which gets abused frequently.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t sit under the algae tank with anyone else but me… anyone else but me… anyone else but me!

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  • iceonfire1@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing is wrong with trees, but the microalgae CO2 capture rate is 50x higher````` .

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    • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Their lifetime is also much shorter. Guess where all that CO2 goes, when they die ^^

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      • pikmeir@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I have a solution. More algae.

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      • neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fertilizer

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      • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wherever you put it?

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m gonna bet that you’re going to get a much-more-economical return there by powdering whatever iron is used in building that thing and then dumping said iron powder into the ocean at an appropriate point.

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      • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This technique is controversial because there is limited understanding of its complete effects on the marine ecosystem,[5] including side effects and possibly large deviations from expected behavior. Such effects potentially include release of nitrogen oxides,[6] and disruption of the ocean’s nutrient balance.[1] Controversy remains over the effectiveness of atmospheric CO2 sequestration and ecological effects.

        Geoengineering is bullshit proposed by funding from fossil fuel companies so they can continue to pollute.

        The solution is simple: make it illegal to pollute. Fine the companies responsible for their contributions to the climate catastrophe out of existence.

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  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Practical answer, fits in places trees may not. Pessimistic answer, fits in some guys cyberpunk ass vision for what he wants his office block to look like.

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  • Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    @ECEC Good lord the number of replies here from people whose brains have been destroyed by "planners"...

    1) Trees lower the urban heat island effect.
    2) There's plenty of room for trees in dense places, so long as "density" means efficient housing and efficient transportation rather than parking lots and stroads and single-family homes.
    3) Someone said "trees require maintenance", as if asphalt and pretty much everything else requires maintenance.
    4) Trees harm cars. But cars harm cars too!

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Trees are also essential for insects, bird and animal life in cities. They are also psychologically calming for people as well.

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They are psychologically calming for people as well.

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides

        Dendrocnide moroides, commonly known in Australia as the stinging tree, stinging bush, or gympie-gympie, is a plant in the nettle family Urticaceae found in rainforest areas of Malesia and Australia.[3] It is notorious for its extremely painful and long-lasting sting.

        Depends on the tree.

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    • svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s plenty of room for trees in new dense places, sure. But if you’re in the parts of London with old ass-narrow ass-streets, this may be less true.

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      • N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        London is the perfect place for some futuristic cyberpunk distopia !

        The rest of the world (except some highly polluting countries who anyway doesn’t give a shit about the environment…) can keep the trees&bees and build arround it ! :)

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    • eowyn@pouet.chapril.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @Andres4NY @ECEC trees harm car is actually a feature, the drivers will slow down in roads with trees borders

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      trees are great, this algae tank is just likely more efficient at producing oxygen

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  • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A big problem with trees is roots, especially in cities. If there’s an actual way to produce the same amount of oxygen as a tree in a smaller space, I’m all for it. I’m honestly okay with how these look, assuming low maintenance.

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  • Elkot@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How’s my dog supposed to piss on that

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Good post.

    Wrong community.

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  • Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Does this count too?

    I already posted this on !balconygardening@slrpnk.net. .

    I’m purposefully growing duckweed on my balcony.
    I’m doing !hydroponics@slrpnk.net, and by doing that, I have lots of waste water with still good fertilizer in it.

    Duckweed is one of the fastest growing, nutrient densest and least demanding plant out there, and you can just scoop it out with a strainer.

    It’s exponentially growing and if you don’t wanna eat it, it makes great organic fertiliser or animal feed with lots of protein and micronutients!

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  • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Trees grow and rip up the pavement around them. I do love the canopy though

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Devil’s advocate:

    These cost far less to maintain than having a team or two dedicated to upkeep for the trees.

    That said, I also think trees are the better option. These are an eyesore.

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  • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it FOSS?

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  • termaxima@programming.dev ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think anything’s wrong with trees, but maybe we could also have some of these as well as trees ?

    Replace the advertisements on bus stops with a really cool green liquid wall 😮 (but they’d have to make the glass super thick, these things tend to be vandalized from time to time)

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not an either/or thing, the tank in the picture is literally sitting under a tree

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Trees don’t make number go up.

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  • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So I appreciate some outside the box thinking. But this just reeks of techbros invent trees but worse. Most of the considerations below seem to think trees and cars are natural enemies, I would argue we reduce cars instead.

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  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It sounded cool a couple of years ago, but it was first installed in 2021 and I’m yet to hear of it really going anywhere.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have you ever seen how long it takes for a tree to grow?

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  • claralistensprechen5th@friendica.rogueproject.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    @ECEC
    Any city manager could tell you everything wrong with having trees downtown.
    * Birds get into them and when they're nesting, they attack anybody walking by
    *Birds also shit on the cars parked under them, and most drivers look for shade to park under
    *Bugs get into them and attract birds when birds aren't nesting
    *Trees drop sap, which also ruins a car's finish
    *city workers have to spend time on the clock keeping the leaves picked up off the ground

    Yeah, the drawback is that the algae don't provide shade.

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