Are you a fan of trees? Then you'll love these new super-trees being developed at Berkeley and Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
Called the "organic enemy" of global warming, these new trees act like mini carbon vaults, sucking up huge amounts of carbon from the air and then sending it down to the soil, never to see the light of day again. So, if carbon is the criminal causing global warming, these super-trees are the global policemen who will catch and imprison that carbon, thereby allowing humans to frolic freely and burn as much fossil fuels as we want!
Meanwhile, the soil under these GMO trees will become filled with carbon, which will stay there "for centuries." A small amount of carbon is already naturally present in soil, and is good for plant growth. Could too much carbon in the soil become toxic? No one knows yet, but if that happens we can just invent a super Potato-Bug to eat up all the carbon in the soil!
Cool - weaponized trees. There is no situation our military research can't make better and more deadly.
ReplyDeleteI love science!!! This shows there's still such a thing as American innovation; it didn't die during The Great Recession, after all. Of course, every time we fool with nature, I get a little nervous, but that's the future, I s'pose. Thanks for this. Can't wait to check it out thoroughly!
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