If you planted a tree every second, it would take you 31 thousand ish years to plant them all.
That said, if you had 100k people planting them itd take under a year. Can a machine plant 1 tree per second? Id be interested to learn that
That said, if you had 100k people planting them itd take under a year. Can a machine plant 1 tree per second? Id be interested to learn that
At the end they mention a planting capacity of 3k square miles per year which is a lot but still small compared to deforestation rates of 46-58k square miles per year.
The biggest issue is outcompeting other smaller plants growing in the same place. It takes a long time for an area to naturally become a forest. I believe human intervention with weeding and watering can speed it up significantly. But that's a bigger investment than merely planting them.
Planting 1 trillion trees by 2020 would take each of us 7.3 billion planting around 140 trees over the next 4 years.
Not quite 1/second, but imagine having a bunch of these running around in your neighbourhood.
They would start planting themselves after a few decades.
Maybe a drone could complete the two actions instead. 1. Jam rod thing into ground, pull it out, dump dirt 2. Stuff in tree
A guy on Reddit claimed to have planted 1.25mm trees this way: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24jgsy/ive_planted_12...
Young trees need water until they're established, so I wonder how many little trees actually survive.
Logically, it would be best to use industrial processes to factory-assemble a package that results in the lowest cost per established new tree when it is left in the wild with no further maintenance.
Existing tree seeds are cheap and stupid, and limited by the state or the art in tree-seed technology, which is essentially to coax an animal into eating a fruit and crapping out the seed elsewhere in a nice, fertile pile of dung.
Humans can do better, by sprouting the seeds in a controlled, indoor facility, culling any unsuitable saplings, and granting the sapling additional resources that the parent trees could not provide before planting it in a location distant from the parents that is already known to be suitable for the adult tree.
~Alternately, leave Robo on tree-planting detail, and skip ahead 1000 years in the Epoch to pick him up.~