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Are you trying to build a underwater habitat, or maybe a space station? Maybe you just want a cleaner indoor environment. You can build a CO2 scrubber with algae. This will remove CO2, produce Oxygen, and some types of algae (spirulina) are a high nutrient food source (as well as a fuel source). Another way [...]
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Water is the world’s life source and essential to all living creatures. Although we live on the blue planet, only 3 percent of all our water is drinkable. Yet we’ve grown accustomed to using it with abandon – individuals consume about 80 to 100 gallons per day adding up to the equivalent of an Olympic [...]
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An excellent free booklet from Hesperian on how to obtain water, store it, and make/keep it clean. This booklet provides practical guidance on the most important “how to” questions dealing with access to water. It highlights, among other issues, what can be done to make water safe for drinking and cooking, and how to protect [...]
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Methane in landfill gas is 20x more potent as a greenhouse gas than much maligned CO2 (plant food). Landfills all over the world are emitting this gas (as do cattle). Although there are some attempts at capturing it as a fuel, many locations flare it, or ignore it altogether. The Bloom Energy fuel cell is [...]
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A metal roof with built-in solar panels is the most energy efficient and longest lasting solar roofing solution. A metal roof will usually last in excess of 50 years, and solar PV panels usually last 30+ years with minimal loss of efficiency or or electric power production. The combination of the two creates a one-time [...]
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