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[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

What happens when one of these breaks and drains into the sewer system? Algae blooms cause noxious odors and would proliferate quickly in the nitrogen-rich environment of human waste water, potentially building up as clogs in the sewer lines. And if the system drains into a natural body of water, the algae can have devastating toxic effects on the natural wildlife. If it doesn't drain and instead gets recycled, then the water treatment process becomes much more difficult and expensive.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

even your trees will be slop. nice.

[–] Szewek@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

I guess it would take a lot of time to accommodate Mars for trees. More than for algae ;)

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The issue with trees is you need to adapt the city to them, you can't adapt them to the city. And people have proven once and again that they would invent anything to not move by an inch when our way of life is put in question.

So we push forward with absurd solutions one after the other: carbon capture, atmospheric geo-engineering, a damned nuke in antarctica, and now "liquid trees".

Because the alternative is to change our ways, and we can't face that.

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[–] andybytes@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

"Why do you say this is stupid? You're so negative." Run of the mill conformist toxic optimist tech bro dildo

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 4 points 2 days ago

Trees arent liquid

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Can't they just put the algae in the ocean?

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

If we put the algae in the oceans, then sink all of our cities underwater, all of our problems will be solved.

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