100 million artificial trees could offset carbon dioxide emissions

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 20:41 in Earth & Climate

Physicist and engineer Klaus Lackner makes artificial trees – but not the kind that decorate living rooms and lobbies. His artificial trees can capture carbon dioxide directly out of the air—and they’re 1,000 times more efficient than nature’s trees in doing so. Millions of the trees could eventually generate “negative carbon emissions,” meaning they could […]

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