Plastic Trees to save planet earth.

[Technosoul]

I got this idea while posting elsewhere but wanted to do a new thread on it.

We could use oil products to manufacture plastic trees that contain a machine which can convert bad air into good air. And which can also filter out polutants. All we need is the technology that can duplicate what a real tree can do. The trees need no watering and can be used inside of buildings without sunlight. We can install big ones outside and smaller ones inside for decor purposes as well as to improve air qualiity, the will even get rid of the so-called bad effects of smoking, as well as problems caused by fosil fuels. They don't grow so you save money on tree trimming mantenance. With enough plastic trees we could help prevent global warming. Convert oil to plastic trees and save the planet.

They will look real. And I have one model tree that will even hug you back. How about that?

[nm420]

Hmm, are you aware how real trees "convert bad air into good air", assuming by bad air you mean CO2 and good air you mean O2? It's a little thing called photosynthesis, and needless to say it does require water. Not to mention a whole lot of enzymes and cellular structures which our technology could not nearly replicate as beautifully as the real deal. Even if we could, though, why bother putting all that effort into packaging them into fake trees? We could just build little cells of them in minimal structures, though there would still be maintenance involved in both watering them and collecting the glucose produced by them. To emulate the filtering properties possessed by trees would require even more structures.

I'd just as soon plant actual real live trees all over; their maintenance is pretty low as it is, and they have all the R&D done already.

[Technosoul]

Quote by: nm420 Hmm, are you aware how real trees "convert bad air into good air", assuming by bad air you mean CO2 and good air you mean O2? It's a little thing called photosynthesis, and needless to say it does require water. Not to mention a whole lot of enzymes and cellular structures which our technology could not nearly replicate as beautifully as the real deal. Even if we could, though, why bother putting all that effort into packaging them into fake trees? We could just build little cells of them in minimal structures, though there would still be maintenance involved in both watering them and collecting the glucose produced by them. To emulate the filtering properties possessed by trees would require even more structures. I'd just as soon plant actual real live trees all over; their maintenance is pretty low as it is, and they have all the R&D done already.

You are right and I sort of posted this as a 'fun debate' thing.

Trees are smarter then our modern science when it comes to such technology. But perhaps a air purification system in a plastic tree would be a novel idea worth marketing? Most humans do not know enough about ecosystems to plant the right trees in the right places, so perhaps some oganization should be formed (or better known about) that would accept donations for re-planting areas, espeically following a forest fire. Some organized effort by tree experts. California was once widely populated by acorn trees but most of them are gone now due to progress and surburban developement, leaving some squirrels without their normal diets. The native Americans used to use acorns as an important natural resource. I would like to see those trees re-introduced.

They never plant food producing trees along highways and so froth because they think they would make too much mess to clearn up after. but such planting would provide some free food for poor people while decorating the highways as well as the trees they use. The same with our local parks in communities.

Most of the community parks in the L.A. area of california have only grass and a few trees that are kept well trimmed. Bushes are not used much because the police patrol the areas and want a clear vision of what is happening in those parks, so that you cannot hide to smoke pot or to attack other park users. Such parks are not very "nature like" at all and most of them have limited shade for a picnic.

Okay for running your doggie but that is about all.