New Urban Algae Invention Produces As Much Oxygen As A Small Forest

[polly7]

This amazing canopy melds nature and technology into something awesome!

EcoLogicStudio in London has designed an Urban Algae Canopy, which produces the same amount of oxygen daily as a forest of 40,000 square meters. This cutting-edge technology was unveiled this week at Expo Milano 2015 Future Food District. The prototype is the world’s first bio-digital canopy, integrating micro-algal cultures and real time digital cultivation protocols within a unique architectural cladding system.

Once completed, the Urban Algae Canopy will produce the oxygen equivalent of four hectares of woodland and up to 150kg of biomass per day, 60% of which are natural vegetal proteins. Designers say: “In EcoLogicStudio we believe that it is now time to overcome the segregation between technology and nature typical of the mechanical age, to embrace a systemic understanding of architecture. In this prototype the boundaries between the material, spatial and technological dimensions have been carefully articulated to achieve efficiency, resilience and beauty.”

http://www.trueactivist.com/new-urban-algae-invention-produces-as-much-oxygen-as-a-small-forest/

(no further information at link).

I thought I had read here that Germany had done something like this, or perhaps the same, but I can't find the thread.

[F4lconF16]

1. Around 6 soccer fields, for a better size reference. nt

[NaturalHigh]

2. Interesting contraption.

We're going to need these things in the future.

[mopinko]

3. pretty cool.

now imagine an industrial size one to turn factory farmed pig shit into oil.
or one where the water falls from one pipe to another and you can hear it.
or...

[Binkie The Clown]

4. Since we have already done so much damage to the environment

that it might never recover, the only alternative is to learn to live without a biosphere.

We talk about colonizing Mars, but in another 50 years we'll need that kind of technology to colonize what's left of Earth!