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This highly effective “artificial tree” made from algae can clean up the air in big cities
EcoLogicStudio has 3D-printed a ten-meter algae-based biopolymer construction that photosynthesizes fifteen times more efficiently than a real tree.
It’s not the first project to use algae to clean up polluted air (we reported on the installation of carbon-absorbing kelp farms here), but the sculptural creation, called Tilted Tree One,