People really like vandalizing trees, diseases exist, and they are less efficient carbon sinks
Like how we found it’s better to feed cattle seaweed than grass but nobody wants to
Liquid Trees
Submitted 4 days ago by sundray@lemmus.org to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 days ago
Carbon sinks? Dude, people are planting trees in cities for the shade.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
There’s a quote about planting trees and not living to see their shade
I’m a bit more pessimistic of people
RQG@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Good thing people don’t like to vandalize glass.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Usually spray paint it rather than breaking it
billwashere@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This just makes me think it’s an aquarium that needs to be cleaned.
Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 4 days ago
All these braindead silicon valley tech bros trynna reinvent existing solutions to problems in very expensive and unnecessary ways, marketing it as “revolutionary” and “groundbreaking”
BussyCat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The majority of our oxygen comes from algae, they aren’t reinventing existing solutions they just put a tank of them in a city and blow air into it so that a city can use the same more efficient fauna that is available in coastal cities
NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I believe algae are flora, not fauna
loomy@lemy.lol 4 days ago
Trees arent liquid
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 days ago
These algae also produce biogas that can be used for heating or producing electricity.
BottleCaptain@lemmy.pt 3 days ago
Damn if only trees created something gaseous that was useful
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 3 days ago
They emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and oxygen, which causes rust in metals and aging in humans. So it’s a negative really…
andybytes@programming.dev 4 days ago
“Why do you say this is stupid? You’re so negative.” Run of the mill conformist toxic optimist tech bro dildo
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Green shit on your terrace, leaves fucking everywhere, looming threat of bird shit on your head, seeds everywhere, roots growing through everything, blocking the sun at every step, tough lessons in gravity for things kids climbing them, lot of damage when it’s stormy out.
But nah trees are great, really.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 days ago
blocking the sun at every step
That’s a feature. I don’t want to be grilled by the sun everywhere I go.
Great for local air quality, too.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Oh no, nature is getting in the way of…a civilization of bipedal animals that encroached on nature!
It’s abhorrent!!
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Gray shit everywhere, concrete fucking everywhere, looming threat of 2-ton steel death machines caving in your head, overheating everywhere, asphalt plowing through everything, soaking up the sun at every step, tough lessons in momentum for kids crossing them, lot of traffic and pollution when there are drivers out.
You could change half of your words, and keep the meaning the same, and make a compelling case that roads, or any other things, are humanity’s greatest scourge.
Go touch whatever remaining local flora people like you have allowed to continue to exist, and quit being an imbecilic bellend online.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What happens when one of these breaks and drains into the sewer system? Algae blooms cause noxious odors and would proliferate quickly in the nitrogen-rich environment of human waste water, potentially building up as clogs in the sewer lines. And if the system drains into a natural body of water, the algae can have devastating toxic effects on the natural wildlife. If it doesn’t drain and instead gets recycled, then the water treatment process becomes much more difficult and expensive.
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I would support legislation that mandated these be used around the highest carbon emitting facilities. Maybe a few very well designed structures (algae tanks) in very densely populated cities.
These would be in no way a replacement for trees in a community but, I could see forcing the corporations to use them. Such as those that must pollute because, they can not manufacture these products without polluting.
DimFisher@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Keep in mind that tree roots can brake through anything
ubergeek@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Not all do. That’s an oak thing really. Pines, most stone fruits, etc, take a path of least resistance, unlike oaks which are more “I am going that way, and NOTHING will stop me!”
WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 4 days ago
“What’s wrong with trees” ask people who have never had an allergy or thought about what roots do to all those nice expensive foundations
Szewek@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I guess it would take a lot of time to accommodate Mars for trees. More than for algae ;)
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Alternative in what sense?
scala@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Pretty sure some cities have about zero areas for a tree to grow. Algae produces a much larger percentage of oxygen compared to any tree.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Pretty sure trees in cities aren’t there to produce oxygen or capture carbon.
pyre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
even your trees will be slop. nice.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Can’t they just put the algae in the ocean?
matlag@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The issue with trees is you need to adapt the city to them, you can’t adapt them to the city. And people have proven once and again that they would invent anything to not move by an inch when our way of life is put in question.
So we push forward with absurd solutions one after the other: carbon capture, atmospheric geo-engineering, a damned nuke in antarctica, and now “liquid trees”.
Because the alternative is to change our ways, and we can’t face that.
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Deja Vu
wildcardology@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The problem with trees is they are used as lumber. The national parks has always been protected. But Trump has unprotected parts of the national parks to be cut down for lumber.
SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 4 days ago
Your just thinking outside the box!
The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 3 days ago
You see, trees get in the way when we want to put down more asphalt to make more room for cars. We need more lanes for cars to park in and more parking lots for cars to park in. The goal is to turn the city into a place devoid of anything but asphalt. Then with no access to dirt to grow food or water to keep them alive, the people will be 100% dependent on their capitalist overlords. Everyone wins.