synthetictrees

As long as you have CO2 sucking trees the world is saved, right? Wrong. You need trees that can suck out CO2 much faster than what natural trees can. Luckily, there seems to be a solution, at least as a proposal. A Columbia University professor working with the Dept. Of Energy has proposed synthetic trees that can suck up CO2 at 1000 times the pace of natural trees.

How does it work? Well, the plastic leaves suck up CO2 and compress it, liquefy and store it in the trunk. The cost per “tree” is unknown as well. Though these trees don’t really look like trees and look more like tuning forks, i am sure they can get around this problem.

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