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dmurray
295 days ago
It's my science fiction story, so I'm going to say the tree we engineered for this was the sugar maple: you can put a tap in it and collect highly pure diesel fuel with a pre-Columbian level of technology.
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arghwhat
295 days ago
No no, you integrate the pump directly into the tree. Skip the farms, just plant the trees at the station in place of the current pumps.
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anvandare
295 days ago
Forest fires would definitely get a lot more exciting.
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ozim
295 days ago
Maybe that's quite the reason why we didn't do it :)
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