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tocomment on Sept 3, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: 100,000 Synthetic Trees Could Help Combat Climate ...

Are these more efficient than real trees? I read before that our solar panels are more efficient than photosynthesis at generating energy from sunlight.

mseebach on Sept 3, 2009 [–]

The object, as I understand it, is scrubbing CO2 from the air, not generating energy.

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