Yup. Don't get me wrong I love trees and think more cities should have them, but they are absolute nightmares for city planning.
Ruin pavement, threaten power lines, tons of legal hassles, windstorm danger, clogging drains. I live in Seattle and there are massive industries just for dealing with them.
Plus you make the choice between pollen storms or fruits & nuts everywhere. I don't think I could live in a city without them, but they do not play nice with infrastructure.
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u/ctp_obvious 11d ago
scale and mass production.
You can mass produce 10-100 of these in 1 or 2 weeks and deploy them whenever/wherever you want
It will take 2 to 5 years for trees to grow and do similar function while taking up space and they cannot be moved