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Suggested by our own Sfoz and based on the proposed concept of Dr. Klaus Lacknerof Columbia University, the Artificial Tree has come to SimCity.The concept is simple. As the wind blows through the artificial tree, carbon from the air is trapped on specially treated louvered plates. The wind then exits the rear of the tree... minus all that nasty carbon that keeps mucking up our air.
In reality, this is still an "on paper" only concept. However, it is estimated that a mere 250,000 of these "trees" placed in strategic locations globally could eliminate the alleged threat of global warming caused by the increasing carbon content in our atmosphere.
There are many details still to be worked out... like what to do with the billions of tons of carbon that would be collected each year. But its close enough now for our Utopian Goals in SimCity. We took the liberty of finishing up the design by adding a water maintenance & collection system, an electronics package for monitoring the status of the tree & triggering maintenance cycles, and adding communications to allow the tree to broadcast data back to a central station and to receive broadcasted commands. All of it, powered by a small photolytic cell atop one of the masts.
Although definitely a Utility in nature, it does not properly fit into any existing category of the game. Its is therefore technically a Landmark... but a truly functional one. Each Artificial Tree is rated at 50 TP (tree power) at the center... falling off to 8 TP at the edge of the 8-tile effect radius. In other words, a single artificial tree cleans as much air pollution as 50 Mayor Mode trees...but over a much larger area than the 2-3 tile effect of a normal tree.
At §4,200 a pop, they a'int cheap. But the monthly maintenance is only only §250 and it doesn't normally take very many to clean up an entire city. Placed near major air polluters like heavy industry and power plants, one or two trees can keep the air around a fairly large area clean & pristine.
* The trees use no external power but do require a small amount of water for collecting the carbon. Each tree also ups your Mayoral Rating to a small, fairly local degree.
** This lot has no dependencies.
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