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Toyota Develops New Flower Species To Reduce Pollution
teko_teko writes "Toyota has created two flower species that absorb nitrogen oxides and take heat out of the atmosphere. The flowers, derivatives of the cherry sage plant and the gardenia, were specially developed for the grounds of Toyota's Prius plant in Toyota City, Japan. The sage derivative's leaves have unique characteristics that absorb harmful gases, while the gardenia's leaves create water vapour in the air, reducing the surface temperature of the factory surrounds and, therefore, reducing the energy needed for cooling, in turn producing less carbon dioxide."
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Oh yeah? Have you SEEN plants turn into coal? I bet not! God put the coal there to test your faith!!!
Feed me, Seymour... :-/
Because cars are awesome, hippy.
I'm finalizing work on a new species of cow that eats unnecessary grass that has been dried. It then produces plenty of methane and CO2 to feed these plants.
What do the goats eat once they've finished the kudzu?
Ask Africa. They eat everything. Then you get desert. Then come the sandworms. Nice, you've doomed us all.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Obligatory Bill Hicks quote:
I think God put you here to test my faith dude.
I am the lawn!
GM tried, but the government just won't let them stop. Even when nobody is buying them.
Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
But with sandworms comes spice and He who controls the Spice controls the universe. I'd like to rent some goats please.
Flower Power. Yeah Baby Yeeaah.....
Presto!!
-- Intelligence is soluble in alcohol
Plants may produce coal, but I have it on good authority that oil comes from dinosaurs:
First the Earth cooled...and then the dinosaurs came...but they got too big and fat...so they all died and they turned into oil...and then the Arabs came...and they bought Mercedes Benz's...and Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes...I couldn't believe it...he took her best summer dress out of the closet and put it on and went to town....
More specifically; Manchester, England.
Kudzu is trivial to get rid of. Just let a herd of goats loose. Not only do they eat kudzu, they PREFER it, and will eat it before almost any other human-desirable plants. There are companies that rent out goats specifically for this purpose.
Then, we simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the goats.
Of course, the snakes are even worse, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat. I can hear you saying, "But then we're stuck with gorillas!" That's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
It's a rather radical solution.
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Well, that's when we bring in the mountain gorillas.