Techno plants
This is about technological products/artifacts of
advanced gemstone metamaterial technology
that more or less resemble natural plants.
Potential reasons for faking plants:
- Similar overall technical design constraints to plants (for whatever reason) – this may be quite unlikely
- Positive psychological effect on humans (and perhaps animals).
- Artistic creativity in landscape design. This may go beyond the former point. See: Gem-gum goo
Contents
Positive psychological effect
What one may want to recreate for this is:
Plants shape, motion and sound of branches and leaves in the wind.
No techno plants needed for these purpouses
For other positive aspects of plants there in principle is
no need to replicate shape and demeanor of plants. E.g.
- evaporation cooling from the leaves pores
- carbon dioxide reduction from photosynthesis
- production and dispersion of molecules that give off a pleasant smell
(like wet forest after rain, hot forest in the summer) - giving shade, sheltering from dir3ect sunlight
- The green color of leaves
Similar design constraints
While one might find some individual design constraints that are quite similarity to the ones for plants,
finding all of them together in combination may be much more unlikely.
Instead of evaporation cooling which makes the air necessarily more humid
technological systems can actually actively cool the air and dump excess heat far far off e.g. closer to the planets winter side or closer to Earth's poles.
Or even (wastefully) actively send out excess heat as directed light to space. See speculative page: cooling by heating.
Diamondoid Trees (Tropostats) – and other solutions
There was made proposals to design advanced gem-gum systems for direct air capture of carbon dioxide in a form somewhat resembling trees.
These were called "Diamondoid Trees (Tropostats)".
There's some discussion of a buoy based approach on this wiki not resembling trees in any way.
See: Mobile carbon dioxide collector buoy
Related
Faar far off zero sum game world scenario:
- Backlink: Gem-gum to natural material gap
External links
No. 43. Diamond Trees (Tropostats): A Molecular Manufacturing Based System for Compositional Atmospheric Homeostasis
