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xYEET_LORDx t1_j917r9n wrote

Lol, this the world we live in now. Artificial trees. Next it’ll be artificial pollinated flowers and manufactured bees

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SilentHunter7 t1_j928h30 wrote

Um, it's not artificial trees. It's engineered wood. They remove the lignin from wood and replace it with synthetic particles. It makes it stronger.

Stronger wood means you could potentially use less of it in construction, which should be good for the environment.

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sanman t1_j95iyyu wrote

Or couldn't we use its strength to make bigger wooden structures? How much stronger is it? And actually, don't different types of wood already have different strengths? So what is this engineered wood being compared to?

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SilentHunter7 t1_j95omr4 wrote

The article seems to say the strength is compared to the strength of the same wood before treatment. At least that's the impression I got.

And you could use it for larger structures. I was just thinking about more efficiency with things like wider stud widths so you'd need less wood for the same wall.

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falcongsr t1_j91btzd wrote

Technology got us into this mess, and it’s our only hope.

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Massive-Science5568 t1_j91dazw wrote

Mechanical pollination is already a thing for a while now dude. People are already investing a lot of money for the technology to replace bees. In the future, we will "bend" nature, not the other way around.

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FantasmaNaranja t1_j92nkwq wrote

vanilla has been artificially pollinated since an at the time slave (Edmond Albius) created a technique to artificially pollinate its flowers (when he was just 12 years old) which made the crop incredibly profitable afterwards

a lot of fruits grown in places without their natural pollinators are also artificially pollinated

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DiabloSixSixtySix t1_j928rfa wrote

Won't be much nature to bend though.

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Will have to start calling everything Artificure

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rohnoitsrutroh t1_j94u0ao wrote

It's the same idea as plywood or OSB, just formed into beams instead of sheets.

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babygrapes-oo t1_j926sgp wrote

Yes this will happen cause the trees and bees will all die bc we destroy their natural habitats for our pleasures.

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DojaTwat t1_j92bvpr wrote

oh no that's what came first - we've graduated to trees not the other way round bzzzz

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mnovakovic_guy t1_j93efq1 wrote

We already have manufactured beef, that’s how the government is spying on us!!

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SilverNicktail t1_j94g7zk wrote

The 20+ people who upvoted this idiotic comment also didn't even attempt to read the article.

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xYEET_LORDx t1_j94jhd1 wrote

I’ll def admit I didn’t read the article. I read the headline and imagined a forest of fake Christmas trees

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Koda_20 t1_j926g2u wrote

That is most certainly where humanity is going, killing all the species off and using scientific progress to keep us peddling while the natural beauty of the biosphere that is the earth dies a quick death.

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