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*cuts down tree to install algae pondscum landmark* SAVING THE PLANET!
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I'm really struggling to understand why algae tanks are a replacement for trees. Surely if you want to put algae anywhere you would put it on roofs, or perhaps there is some other kind of plant that doesn't need to be kept in water, grows everywhere, and has historically been used for roofing.  No, manky fishtank it is.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm really struggling to understand why algae tanks are a replacement for trees. People get to be middlemen selling and maintaining the algae tanks. The only thing stopping us from dumping sulfur and calcium aerosols into the atmosphere to cool it down and perhaps destroy all life on the planet by accident, is that there's noone to send the bill to. Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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Mar 30, 2023 16:57
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But you can also have jobs selling and maintaining trees...
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Mar 30, 2023 17:02
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Failed Imagineer posted:But you can also have jobs selling and maintaining trees... You can't copyright a tree. Actually you probably can. I'm not a lawyer.
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Mar 30, 2023 17:03
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Yeah I'm not up to date on IP law as it applies to genomes but... probably?
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I think the idea is that algae can thrive in places that are too toxic for trees and grass. Brendan Rodgers posted:You can't copyright a tree. Actually you probably can. I'm not a lawyer.
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Like I got nothing against the person with a harness and chainsaw, or the person with an algae maintenence kit, or whatever goes on there. But by middlemen I mean all that rent seeking that all the green products will have, as capital pivots to selling us "solutions" to climate change.
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:I think the idea is that algae can thrive in places that are too toxic for trees and grass. Engineer the tree's genes. Combine it with a gene from a snail that lives in toxic volcanic vents or something. We have the technology. Trees can reproduce themselves and won't give us an ever expanding house of cards that needs to be maintained to stop The Event from Mitchell and Webb happening.
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Nargund more like nah guv.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Engineer the tree's genes. Combine it with a gene from a snail that lives in toxic volcanic vents or something. We have the technology. Trees can reproduce themselves and won't give us an ever expanding house of cards that needs to be maintained to stop The Event from Mitchell and Webb happening. Algae can also reproduce itself tho? Also it's way better at actually sequestering carbon than trees and works 24/7/365. Even if we had the technology I don't see how turning it into a mega-science project to build a Bio-Metal Gear ends up with FEWER middle men getting involved. Trees are still cool and good but if the situation you're in demands big time filtering such that it just kills trees outright, you've gotta look elsewhere. Algae does a lot of good work for this planet and it's high time it got the credit it deserves!!!
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Yeah Algae can reproduce but I hope these glass tanks can't or we've got bigger problems, I was talking about these from the last page:
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Yeah I think the algae thing looks quite cool from a purely ‘thing’ perspective. The infrastructure behind it I have no idea about, however. Also trees can reproduce. But you really don’t want them doing that willy-nilly in a built-up area
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Yeah Algae can reproduce but I hope these glass tanks can't or we've got bigger problems: Well trees in cities also aren't reproducing on their own, which isn't to say they don't try. Algae doesn't fill the air with a soup of pollen twice a year either! I think trees will still default to where they can live. I don't think this is really a green technology, they're going to require some amount of power to function and probably a lot over winter so it depends on where that power is coming from.
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Jakabite posted:Also trees can reproduce. But you really don’t want them doing that willy-nilly in a built-up area Yes I do
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There are multiple invasive plants that can grow through concrete. 
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OwlFancier posted:I'm really struggling to understand why algae tanks are a replacement for trees. Rogue AI Goddess posted:I think the idea is that algae can thrive in places that are too toxic for trees and grass. Yeah, and for places that are literally too densely packed and therefore the air quality is poor. They're not designed to replace trees, they're designed to give people who live in dense urban environments the chance to not get lung cancer. making GBS threads on them because they aren't trees is, ironically, missing the forest for the trees.
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah, and for places that are literally too densely packed and therefore the air quality is poor. They're not designed to replace trees, they're designed to give people who live in dense urban environments the chance to not get lung cancer. making GBS threads on them because they aren't trees is, ironically, missing the forest for the trees. I see. My bad.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm really struggling to understand why algae tanks are a replacement for trees. Why not both Real answer, you have algae for urban areas with trees being in woods. Algae is a lot more efficient than trees. And as others have said RENT!
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I do kinda envision a future where a mother is telling her young kids that trees were different in the old days, and weren't made of glass tanks full of algae. But that's probably just me being cynical.
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Okay so here's how we solve climate change: we develop a form of this algae that can handle seawater and we turn the ocean green. *hand to ear* Oh sorry just heard that would ruin the super-rich's beach vacation view, never mind we all get to die.
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Mar 30, 2023 17:45
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there's varieties of tree known for hardiness to pollution, and ongoing efforts to increase that more than the last few hundred years of evolution during the industrial revolution did that algae box is the kind of hopeful sounding bullshit trading on false solutions that venture capitalist scum have put out in response to climate change for decades no need to solve climate change when the solutions are well known and [redacted]
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Mar 30, 2023 17:47
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The algae tanks were made for places where the polution is so bad that single trees don't do poo poo because they get covered in toxic dust. https://balkangreenenergynews.com/liquid-tree-to-combat-air-pollution-in-belgrade/
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DesperateDan posted:there's varieties of tree known for hardiness to pollution, and ongoing efforts to increase that more than the last few hundred years of evolution during the industrial revolution did The better cynical take on this is that it's just a way to avoid having a discussion about removing cars. Trees would be put in these places if they were up to the task, urban planners are aware that there are some trees hardier than others, but that doesn't mean any are as hardy or efficient as a tank of algae.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:08
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Beyond parody. How is it possible to be this poo poo? https://twitter.com/leftnotlabour/status/1641484619420774413?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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smellmycheese posted:Beyond parody. How is it possible to be this poo poo? Hahaha... I came running to the thread to post exactly the same. It's loving incredible 
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smellmycheese posted:Beyond parody. How is it possible to be this poo poo? I was hanging around Swindon station for quite a long time yesterday thank goodness I didn't see those two. That logo is so.... Tory. For those who don't wish to pollute their browser caches: 
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smellmycheese posted:Beyond parody. How is it possible to be this poo poo? Lmao just....lmao
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:The logo actually looks like it's been shattered into bits which is more appropriate. Almost like this one!  Broken Britain.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yes I do They can do it by your dwelling then, I’d rather mine stayed standing
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:The logo actually looks like it's been shattered into bits which is more appropriate. Maybe Labour is using the same AI for their shitposts as I do for mine?   Do not look at this one
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fuctifino posted:Maybe Labour is using the same AI for their shitposts as I do for mine? Oh that's horrible. Wish I'd taken notice of your warning now. I feel sick 
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Mar 30, 2023 19:16
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I should have listened  Butlerian jihad starts now
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I laughed, which may indicate I have a diseased mind. Thank God.
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Looking forward to algae tree boxes needing electricity for adverts on the side and being placed to block as much pavement as possible. https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/09/electronic-advertising-boards-manchester-energy-use-consumption
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