Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid - io9 Comments

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

Klebert L. Hall — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:28:14 PST

What makes it a 'machine'?
-Kle.

Klebert L. Hall

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

wilmawonker — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:00:34 PST

right now those trees are in pots though. something tells me they need/want more soil over time - how's that gonna work?

wilmawonker

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

Jeff-Minor — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:24:10 PST

It's nice looking. I wonder if a city like detroit could utilize things like this? We have lots of brown fields, and the thing could grow switch grass or corn, or pulp trees. Trees are answer to global warming. We need to grow hundreds of billions of them as crops, like coconut palms. We need to harvest them and then sink them to the bottom of the ocean, in a very deep trench, locking all the CO2 up under all that water. And, rich governments could pay poor tropical climate countries in the form of carbon tax money.

Jeff-Minor

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

spacedcowboy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:50:20 PST

It's the Nazi party of the tree world. Sitting up there so high n mighty on their solar powered throne. The others lined up in silent submission. Sickening... Beautiful...

spacedcowboy

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

905 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:49:29 PST

Where's Bruce Dern and the three little droids when you really need them?

905

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

followthattank — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:29:37 PST

@Atrocious: Don't worry, the Tree Liberation Front is on the case. Even if firebombs aren't the *best* solution...

followthattank

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

Insomnia Bob — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:59:30 PST

I got your renewable energy RIGHT HERE.

Insomnia Bob

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

CapnCalamity — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:18:46 PST

@Simon Piper: They could, but then it wouldn't be as cool-looking...and they'd get less press.

They're just using the trees. Environmental sluts.

CapnCalamity

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

Simon Piper — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:29:56 PST

Urban Ecosystem's website is next to unnavigable.

I know that solar panels provide energy, but what are the trees for? More oxygen? Couldn't we have just planted more trees the old-fashioned way? Maybe I'm missing something here, but I couldn't find an answer on their ridiculous site anyway.

Simon Piper

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

Dug — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:29:34 PST

Love it.

Dug

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

wilmawonker — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:16:07 PST

hot.

wilmawonker

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

tetragami — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:50:41 PST

Is it okay that I want to live in a giant glass cube suspended in the middle of that thing?

tetragami

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

Ghede — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:04:43 PST

I don't care what the awful people say on the other side of the link. You are beautiful to me, Giant Tree-Powered Machine.

Ghede

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

Atrocious — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:01:33 PST

All the free range trees in the drawings are silently seeping tears for their caged brethren.

Atrocious

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

Eac_o_System — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:58:06 PST

What year in the future do you think we all have to worship that thing?!?

Eac_o_System