we already know how photosynthesis is done ; so why cant we creat “artificial plants” that take CO2 and gives O2 and energy in exchange?
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Actual plants are by far the most efficient way to do this lol, and the only way we can mitigate the ecological disasters of climate change making vast swathes unlivable.
Actual plants, ecosystems, and land use practices, coupled with stopping emissions, which will be easier when we grow/produce most of what we actually need to survive close to home. And because one chestnut tree can birth thousands more and feed thousands of people over the course of its life, the sooner we start planting food bearing trees the better.
This is literally the most elegant and only tool at our disposal. Technologies like the one you’re talking about, going to Mars, all of that is digging our carbon hole deeper when we don’t have time to sink carbon energy into those things anymore.
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