Lab-grown wood could be future of furniture

Found on BBC News on Wednesday, 24 March 2021
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American scientists are working on a plan to "grow" wood in a laboratory without sunlight or soil.

Growing wood to the size of a coffee table, she explained, would be a "slow process, a few months… obviously that's much quicker than a tree which might take 20 years to grow".

Because it is so much more efficient to use resources and destroy nature to build the labs, run them and produce the gel to grow the wood, than just to plant a sapling and let mother nature do its job...