Trees grow and rip up the pavement around them. I do love the canopy though
So, uh, what’s wrong with that?
Practical answer, fits in places trees may not. Pessimistic answer, fits in some guys cyberpunk ass vision for what he wants his office block to look like.
Liquid Trees! Slam it down fast!
Nothing is wrong with trees, but the microalgae CO2 capture rate is 50x higher````` .
Their lifetime is also much shorter. Guess where all that CO2 goes, when they die ^^
I have a solution. More algae.
Based and algae-pilled
I’m gonna bet that you’re going to get a much-more-economical return there by powdering whatever iron is used in building that thing and then dumping said iron powder into the ocean at an appropriate point.
Why is this in self hosted?
in case you want to self-host your own algae, I guess
Just give me a 4U tank somewhere where someone else can deal with harvesting the algae and a webcam aimed at it and I can enjoy it just fine from here. For me, selfhosting is mostly about the privacy, not principally about needing to be resistant to loss of Internet connectivity or the like.
I have seen a few guides on growing your own algae including from CodySlab.
Come on, you know there’s someone out there trying to work out how to selfhost one of these.
I have a birth bath I don’t ever replace the water in. Its like a shrub to me.
birth bath
Uhhhhhh you should probably at least drain out the placenta fluid…
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)
I like how everyone is acting like it is normal to have this in self hosted
I love this about lemmy.
Like someone stumbling into the wrong house and still being welcomed.
It’s a lot more informal and relaxed than on the piss page of the Internet.
Is it FOSS?
As I recall, at least under US law, you can’t copyright genetically-engineered life, just get a twenty year biological patent. So I don’t think that FOSS status would be directly germane other than maybe in how some such licenses might deal with patent licensing.
Trees are FOSS. This is a fork of trees.
Looks more like MOSS.
@ECEC Good lord the number of replies here from people whose brains have been destroyed by “planners”…
- Trees lower the urban heat island effect.
- There’s plenty of room for trees in dense places, so long as “density” means efficient housing and efficient transportation rather than parking lots and stroads and single-family homes.
- Someone said “trees require maintenance”, as if asphalt & pretty much everything doesn’t require maintenance?
- Trees harm cars. But cars harm cars too!
trees are great, this algae tank is just likely more efficient at producing oxygen
Trees are also essential for insects, bird and animal life in cities. They are psychologically calming for people as well.
They are psychologically calming for people as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
Dendrocnide moroides, commonly known in Australia as the stinging tree, stinging bush, or gympie-gympie, is a plant in the nettle family Urticaceae found in rainforest areas of Malesia and Australia.[3] It is notorious for its extremely painful and long-lasting sting.
Depends on the tree.
Because there’s no serious answers being given even though there are at least 2:
- trees have roots, roots ruin any nearby human infrastructure. You’ll note this says “in urban environments” and that there are trees nearby, so this is probably the big reason
- trees need maintenance, which costs money. this is a stupid reason imo, but it’s one nonetheless
- algae is cool, ok?
Bet that algae box will need maintenance too :-)
Algae is also more efficient per cubic meter, if I understand correctly.
Not just more efficient, vastly more efficient. Algae is 10-50 times faster at processing CO² than trees are. Some algae can be up to 400x as efficient.
It’s just not as “nice” to look at, we usually associate algae with growth in unsafe bodies of water like bogs, etc. versus a nice clean pool or even a maintained pond.
On the other hand, algae do not produce shade, not sure if it filters atmospheric pollutants, and trees provide all sort of other services to the local ecosystem.
Maybe this invention can be used on places where trees cannot lives, but I’d still take a city with trees over a city full of green tanks.
Maybe this invention can be used on places where trees cannot lives, but I’d still take a city with trees over a city full of green tanks.
These in the spots where trees once stood but were too destructive & trees everywhere else imo. Cool tech future AND trees, plus these are benches too it looks like
plus these are benches too it looks like
This part is the most surprising. For something meant to go in urban areas, where’s the hostile architecture? No railings between seats? No spikes?
That sounds like it needs its own community. “Hostile Architecture” I love it.
Edit: I googled the term and think it could be a sub. https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/designing-for-typologies/hostile-architecture-anti-homeless-architecture/
(Sorry, you made me think of this article)
Don’t forget pollen and seeds.
Bees need pollen. We need bees and you can self host them.
Oh yeah
I’m one of those elites who don’t have allergies so I tend to forget 😎😎😎
>:(
Let’s tie him up and sneeze on him.
Plus pollen means having to pay to clean it off.
“let’s uproot all these trees and invade this space. and when the roots of the few remaining trees do what they are supposed to do, let’s blame them for ‘ruining’ human infrastructure!”
trees dont ruin ANY human infrastructure. But the usual urban infrastructure isnt well thought out enough to exist around trees. But smarter urbanism is possible and in fact does exist.
People ruin nature’s infrastructure
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trees dont ruin ANY human infrastructure
I think you mean all, as this reads more like “nuh uh, trees don’t ruin anything”
But smarter urbanism is possible and in fact does exist.
And those are not the norm, so for places that don’t plan to just destroy what’s already there and start anew, this is an option
How do I self host these? I tried
docker run liquidtreesit didn’t workTry
docker run liquidtrees:micro-algaeInstructions unclear, installed Liquid Swords.
I think there’s an alpine build too if your system has low oxygen levels
Good post.
Wrong community.
A big problem with trees is roots, especially in cities with dense underground infrastructure. If there’s an actual way to produce the same amount of oxygen as a tree in a smaller space, I’m all for it. I’m honestly okay with how these look, assuming low maintenance.
The only liquid trees I approve of are the kinds that come in a 510 threaded cart and you smoke.
You can bioengineer algae to do pretty much anything.
Devil’s advocate:
These cost far less to maintain than having a team or two dedicated to upkeep for the trees.
That said, I also think trees are the better option. These are an eyesore.
These probably require more maintenance and not less, glass needs to be regularly cleaned and water changed and fertilized, what will happen when company stops supporting this proprietary algae aquariums?
The “cost” of maintaining trees is paid by the city to people living, buying things and paying taxes in the city.
People who don’t have a college education and get to make a living working outside, improving their neighborhood.The fake trees are likely put up and maintained by a tech corporation.
I don’t agree that these are an eyesore, they are not as pretty as a tree, no, but disgustingly ugly? Nah.
Seems like a decent idea if you have an over developed location where you can’t plant a tree.
Someones gunna break it too.
