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Fake Trees Could Combat Global Warming

Submitted by LiveScience Staff

posted: 28 August 2009 03:48 pm ET

Engineers propose a forest of 100,000 fake trees to soak up carbon emissions and combat global warming. The trees — machines really — would suck carbon from the air through filters and then store it.

Such geoengineering schemes have been gaining favor lately, at least in terms of being considered on the plate of possibilities.

We have just one question: What's wrong with real trees?

Read full story at The BBC

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