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Comment author: Lumifer 15 December 2014 08:37:59PM 1 point [-]

a thin porous cable stuffed with enzyme analogue to download HM directly from the soil

To extract heavy metals from the soil you need a LOT of contact surface. Roots excel at this, cables, not so much.

Comment author: Romashka 16 December 2014 06:23:34AM 0 points [-]

I know. Still might be more feasible.

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