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(Canada.com) Silly Eiffel Tower could become world's largest tree, according to people who think putting plants on metal makes it a tree   (canada.com) divider line 21
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xanadian [TotalFark]
2011-11-30 10:44:49 AM
It's a CYBORG TREE!!1! It uses starlight.
 
groppet
2011-11-30 10:48:07 AM
So its like the dumb cell tower they put branches all over to make it look like a tree. But it just looks like a cell tower with fake branches on it.
 
LordOfThePings
2011-11-30 10:49:12 AM
That'll become a lot of IKEA BILLY bookshelves.
 
CLPJr
2011-11-30 10:55:12 AM
Just plant kudzu around the base and the tower will be completely covered in 2 months for almost no cost.
 
cjmook21
2011-11-30 10:55:47 AM
Engineering group Ginger, specialized in "green" architecture, has spent two years working on the 72-million-euro ($98.8-million) project that would see 600,000 plants attached to the tower, the French daily reported.

www.mamapop.com
 
orclover [TotalFark]
2011-11-30 10:57:54 AM
And if I shoved a propeller up my ass it would make me an airplane?
 
ManRay
2011-11-30 10:58:37 AM
Why don't they just dye all their white flags green instead? It would be easier and just as effective.
 
BurnShrike
2011-11-30 11:00:45 AM
orclover: And if I shoved a propeller up my ass it would make me an airplane?

No, but I like where you're going with this.
 
pswdfreak
2011-11-30 11:01:52 AM
New, from the people who redefined french fries as a vegetable in school lunches!
 
The Bestest
2011-11-30 11:05:14 AM
CLPJr: Just plant kudzu around the base and the tower will be completely covered in 2 months for almost no cost.
 
BigNumber12 [TotalFark]
2011-11-30 11:15:08 AM
Wow, $100 million to remove 3.5 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere! It's amazing that nobody's done this before! Way to push the boundaries of 'green architecture,' France!
 
The_Homeless_Guy
2011-11-30 11:16:29 AM
Wouldn't this risk the long term health of the tower? Generally vines growing on anything increases the local moisture (plants put out a lot of it) leading to more rusting/decay.
 
unyon [TotalFark]
2011-11-30 11:20:26 AM
The_Homeless_Guy: Wouldn't this risk the long term health of the tower? Generally vines growing on anything increases the local moisture (plants put out a lot of it) leading to more rusting/decay.

FTFA: The plants would be placed in bags of soil hanging from hemp ropes attached to the tower's steel structure. Twelve tonnes of rubber piping would irrigate the vegetation.

Doesn't sound to me like there is direct contact between the vegetation and the tower itself. Although I can see a drip irrigation system that large certainly having some leakage that might lead to the sort of issue you describe.

I wonder why they're limiting the timeframe? Plants in 4 years would get too heavy/outgrow their receptacles?
 
Tillmaster
2011-11-30 11:33:36 AM
Asinine idea. Increasing humidity around a metal structure is dingue, as the French would say.
 
Mentalpatient87
2011-11-30 11:40:06 AM
Oh, yeah, that sounds lovely. Flowerpots scattered every damn where full of cigarette butts.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2011-11-30 11:45:37 AM
orclover: And if I shoved a propeller up my ass it would make me an airplane?

No, but if you shove a nozzle in there and then ate a bunch of beans, it might make you a jet plane...
 
fluffybunny [TotalFark]
2011-11-30 11:56:21 AM
This is the Eiffel Tower:

sacredcalf.files.wordpress.com
 
Trapper439 [TotalFark]
2011-11-30 12:35:43 PM
orclover: And if I shoved a propeller up my ass it would make me an airplane?

I don't know, but I feel that you should experiment.

/Farking scientific method, how does it work?
 
watson.t.hamster
2011-11-30 01:09:24 PM
CLPJr: Just plant kudzu around the base and the tower France will be completely covered in 2 months for almost no cost.

Something has to eat that stuff. Maybe we could import some sort of horribly aggressive animal with no natural predators to eat it. And then we can import some predators to eat those and then they will all just freeze to death in the winter.
 
ManRay
2011-11-30 02:11:42 PM
watson.t.hamster: Something has to eat that stuff. Maybe we could import some sort of horribly aggressive animal with no natural predators to eat it. And then we can import some predators to eat those and then they will all just freeze to death in the winter.

They did that here in the South. Except for the freezing part. And the bugs stink. And they eat other legumes, like peanuts.
 
Vlad_the_Inaner
2011-11-30 04:00:28 PM
watson.t.hamster: Something has to eat that stuff. Maybe we could import some sort of horribly aggressive animal with no natural predators to eat it. And then we can import some predators to eat those and then they will all just freeze to death in the winter.

You can eat it yourself.

Kudzu: 'Vine that ate the South' is also good eating (new window)
 
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