• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months 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.

  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months 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?

    • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Don’t you want to subscribe to our Tree Ultimate program, that will give you a limited access to a living tree for 199.99 a month or 1999 a year?

  • Geetnerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    'What’s wrong with trees? They’re taking up space for real estate development, stupid peasant."

  • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months 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.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Just give me a 4U somewhere someone else can deal with harvesting the algae and a webcam aimed at it and I can enjoy it just fine from here.

    • DUMBASS@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Come on, you know there’s someone out there trying to work out how to selfhost one of these.

        • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          You should look up “Walstad planted tank”. An all plants aquarium you don’t ever have to mess with (except to trim if you want to)

          • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I’ve been doing these for years… they don’t work as intended for more than a year or two, and then become pretty unstable. Even the lady who created it went back to low-maintenance (as opposed to zero input) systems after a few years. Still with the dirt and all but not without water movement and stuff.

  • 0ops@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months 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

    • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months 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.

  • bluewing@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, those are going to last at -40F/-40C nights we often experience where I live. Nor do I see them being able to add any cool relief from their shade on a hot day.

    That said, it is hard to grow healthy trees in the poisoned soils of a big city. They tend to struggle and be sickly when choked by concrete and asphalt.