Ok, this is awesome. Synthetic trees that capture carbon emissions.
CNN reported out of London today that U.S. scientist are in the middle of creating a “synthetic tree” to collect carbon dioxide from the air.
Seriously.
"Each unit would take out a ton of CO2 a day -- which would be the amount of CO2 produced by 20 average automobiles in the U.S.A. And the cost of each unit would be about the cost of a Toyota. So that would mean if you added a five percent surcharge on automobile purchases that money could go to building units to remove the CO2 those vehicles are going to create."said Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wally Broecker of Columbia University.
They say it will be capable of collecting carbon approximately 1,000x faster than a real tree. So, how does it work, right? Read more
