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Earthship at the end of the rainbow! Boom!
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Hopefully hemp can be grown as an industrial material again! The benefits to both occupants’ comfort and the surrounding environment is worth every penny. And it’s cheaper than using timber to construct the whole house.
That link no longer works – here’s a new one!
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Wind farms could protect from hurricanes
Wind farms take energy out of the atmosphere and convert it to electricity, so what happens if a storm hits a big enough wind farm? We heard one answer at #AGU13.
Scientists Mark Jacobson from Stanford took two infamous storms – hurricane Katrina and hurricane Sandy, and asked what would have happened if those storms ran into a big wind farms. The resultsare pretty startling.
If those storms ran into large enough wind farms…most of their energy would have been stolen by the windmills. For Katrina…hitting the right wind farm would cut the wind energy of the storm by 50% and cut the storm surge by 72%. A similar situation for hurricane Sandy would have knocked off 21% of the storm surge from that monster.
whoa. this is big.
Source: facebook.com
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Earthbag house
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On the issue of coral reef solarpunk, I think you can try googling up Pemuteran reef in Bali. It's an artificial reef made of metal frameworks that accumulate calcium carbonate and forms perfect coral substrates. Idk if it counts as solarpunk, and it would be interesting to see the long term effects of these structures
Oh, I like that!
In caring for nature using modern technology and methods, that seems pretty solarpunk to me.
Now… imagine combining those metal frameworks and their coral reefs with the kind of stilt villages also found in East and Southeast Asia – though, of course, with enough spacing to allow sunlight down to nourish the symbiotic algae the corals rely on. Then imagine powering a village like that with peer to peer solar energy like in Bangladesh, and maybe having a couple of floating greenhouses to supplement food gathered from the sea.
Or for a more urban version, imagine one of those impressive floating city concepts sitting on top of a metal framework which grows coral. A city like that could use solar collectors and fibre optics to redirect sunlight, a bit like the New York Lowline park, to nourish the coral ecosystem.
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NIGHT&DAY dress by C.F. Worth 1858 - A fancy dress costume made of blue and yellow silk. The silk velvet bodice is boned and lined with cream silk. The multilayered skirt has decorative elements such as butterflies, bats, flowers, a stuffed bird and a padded silver moon crescent, all attached onto the skirt and further trimmed with beads and sequins. This fancy dress costume includes the original silk slippers, one for Night, one for Day, and a feather fan, also split into night and Day.
Love this dress!
Source: rmgandco.com
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imagine solarpunk cities being built around the kind of energy they use. floating ocean cities using tidal energy. alpine cities taking advantage of their vantage point and using wind and solar. cities in harsh climates using geothermal and living underground. there are so many possibilities
persolem
This is exactly what I’m talkin about!! Synergy with our environment is the direction we need to move in.
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Needed to lock down some design for future crowd scenes, so I’m working on clothing for the different regions. First up is some clothing exploration for the country of Buani, home of solar-based magic and The Mage. (I’d like to explore some different colors/patterns as well, but for now I’m just focusing on the basic shape/design.)
[second outfit on bottom row was inspired by biohazardcomicbook’s Sunflare. Rest of the references can be found on my Buani pinterest board]
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Ray of Rice hat/lamp by Jittasak Narknisorn
“I respect and admire agriculture, especially the rice farmers who provide us with the food in our everyday lives. They work very long hours under the hot sun during harvesting season. From this observation, I saw how to merge the traditional lifestyle of a rice farmer and today’s technology. Ray of Rice : hat & lamp is comprised of solar cells on the exterior with LED lights on the interior. As the rice farmers work during the day the solar cells collect the sun’s energy. By night, the hat can be hung anywhere and utilized as a wireless lamp.”
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I hadn’t realised that Lush make biodegradable glitter, but I’m glad that they do. Apparently it’s made from a mix of agar and mica. Agar is a gelatinous substance which comes from red algae and seaweed (biologists who make cell cultures will be familiar with this stuff), while mica is a shiny, flaky mineral (technically called a phyllosilicate).
In other words, you can wash this glitter away into the sea, and you’ll be adding nothing into the sea that wasn’t there before! Brilliant!