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This lamp absorbs 150 times more CO2 than a tree
Itâs still in the âso crazy it just might workâ stage, but these microalgae-powered lamps, invented by French biochemist Pierre Calleja, could absorb a ton of carbon from the air every year. Thatâs as much as 150 to 200 trees. [x]
YOU DONâT UNDERSTAND. This is ingenious.
The design is a light bulb surrounded by a glass casing. The glass is filled with (water based) media and microalgae. The top is permeable to gasses so that gas exchange can occur. All of the wiring is linked to the grid underground.
Since the light source is inside, it gets scattered and âdimmedâ by the water and algae. This makes it less glaringly bright and scatters the light wider, which is good for a street light. It is not longer white light as well, which helps make it easier on the eyes while still providing light.
At the same time, it provides the light for photosynthesis in the algae, so they are continuously exchanging CO2 for O2, not just in the day. It also provides a source of heat, which helps keep the algae from going dormant during cold weather (as in the snowy picture above).
And notice how I did not specify permeability - thatâs because NOxâs (NO and NO2) are also permeable and can be used as nitrogen sources to microalgae. In fact, algae are relatively low maintenance. As autotrophs, they donât require super complex media, not does it really need to be changed/added to. (Iâm actually fairly certain that there would still be algae in these tanks a year later; it may need to be cleaned or something, but there would be some living algae.)
solar punk sensibilities with cyber punk aesthetic
Swamplamp
Windmills
mr plant man, bring me a seed
make it the greenest that iâve ever seen
give it two leaves like roses and clover
and tell it that its weedy nights are over
plant man, iâm so alone
donât have no garden to call my own
so please turn on your magic bean
mr plant man, bring me a seed
"This plan will make it possible to achieve climate change goals set by the German government, but it will also, and this is important, achieve affordable and secure energy supplies if the German government implements our recommendations," said Barbara Praetorius, an environmental professor who served as one of the four leaders of the commission.
Germany should shut down all of its coal-fired power plants by 2038 at the latest, a government-appointed commission said on Saturday, proposing at least 40 billion euros ($45.7 billion) in aid to regions affected by the planned phase-out.
The commissionâs plans are at the center of Germanyâs strategy to shift to renewables, which made up more than 40 percent of the energy mix last year, beating coal for the first time.
The proposals of the coal commission, which were finalized after more than 20 hours of last-round talks, will serve as a guideline for the government in its effort to turn the planned exit from coal into law.
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âused to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.â
â Paul McCartney (via goodreadss)
Keep tabs on the quality of the air you breath.
Hey if you go to a national park pick up your goddamn trash
This talk is SUPER IMPORTANT in the discussion of clean/renewable energy. The truth is, the US energy grid canât rely 100% on renewable energy because it is built to generate electricity The Instant Itâs Needed. So if electricity is needed, but the wind isnât spinning the turbines, youâre screwed. And if the wind IS spinning the turbines, but that electricity isnât needed, it goes to waste because we have no grid-scale energy storage built into our systems.
This geophysicist proposes a way to build grid-scale clean energy storage into abandoned pit mines that are currently environmental hazards, thus cleaning up the damage to the local environment and creating a way to use renewable energy on a much larger scale in this country than ever before. This could be a game-changer for the USA, guys. Ideas like this give me a spark of hope for the future of our planet.
âȘIn a greenhouse the size of a toaster, a small cotton plant is growing on the Moon. Extraterrestrial life. A key step away from Mother Earth. ⏠https://www.instagram.com/p/BssoX3QnpkM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=60c6m9xsgzot
I canât remember if Iâve mentioned this or not. This is Appropedia, itâs a wiki focused all on sustainability. The whole thing is extremely solarpunk, and for years theyâve had a starter wiki page on solarpunk itself, ported over at one point from wikipedia. The solarpunk entry on wikipedia was deleted some time ago, and I havenât had the energy/time to deal with the innards of wikipedia politics (honestly Iâm hoping someone else will step up, Iâm doing so much already, but I digressâŠ)
Anyway Iâve been working on the solarpunk page at Appropedia, slowly learning how to do various basic things there. I highly encourage others to help out! If we want solarpunk to go anywhere, to do accomplish anything, then weâve all got to roll up our sleeves and help out when and where we can - which is a very different model and mindset from our overall passive consumerist culture.Â
Solarpunk is a call to action, and it is the actions too. And if this entry turns out to be a well fleshed out and referenced article, it could one day just be ported back over to wikipedia.Â
And for anyone who doesnât feel like creating a login and messing with this stuff, Iâm also open to suggestions for what to add to the page. Copyright appropriate art, your favorite solarpunk fictional passages, your favorite solarpunk essays, your favorite solarpunk music, your favorite solarpunk quotes, etc.
The Persians invented domed structures called yakhchÄls that used evaporation to keep their interior cool enough to store ice without melting, even in the hottest part of the year. The yakhchÄls were also used to store other foodstuffs that needed refrigeration.
this is so cool
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Windmills and a vanilla sky in Amarillo.
Home state wind turbines are the best
I visit the compost bins daily just to say greetings to the workers. I feed them, they feed the plants and the plants feed us.
Whether theyâre saving books from censorship, or sheltering their community from danger, thereâs nothing new about librarians choosing actions alongside words
Maybe Iâll be a heroic librarian one day, but for now I am just a high school library courtesy
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