Last updated: 25 Aug 22 19:13:44 (UTC)
OSB orchards
brief:
https://www.ribaj.com/products/west-fraser-ribaj-annual-design-competition-enter
OSB
gas
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrified-waters
grottoes
Mycelium:
archigram solarpunk
https://archive.org/details/grotesquearchite00wrig/page/n81/mode/2up
William Wrighte - Grotesque Architecture
Methane to energy
“The latest plant in Domlur was set up in October 2015 and has been fully functional over the last week. It produces around 40 KV power to light up 44 lamps installed in the park premises and one high-mast lighting unit in the area,” BBMP assistant engineer (electrical) Manjappa told BM.”
“Around 45 tonnes of cowdung is fed into the main digester for the culturing process. After 10-15 days of culturing, methane gas begins to build up in the tank, which is indicated by the lifting of the dome of the tank from its dormant position. Green waste is fed starting at 500 kg per day, and is increased by 500 kg every fortnight to reach a peak feeding of 5,000 kg per day. Methane gas, thus generated, is stored in a balloon of 80 cubic metre capacity. At the plant site itself, some gas is used for running the turbine that generates power.”
https://www.thehindu.com/features/homes-and-gardens/green-solution-for-biowaste/article6990507.ece
https://www.dw.com/en/bangalore-startup-turns-garbage-into-gas/a-51034766#amp_tf
USA:
Direct use options:
UK sites
but whats a park if you can’t see a linnet? a timetable if your journey’s infinite? My bag’s packed and I’m leaving in a minute, for what is Chatteris without you in it?
https://www.r-e-a.net/resources/landfill-gas-sites-map/
https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/groundwater/quality/methane_groundwater.html
https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/groundwater/shaleGas/methaneBaseline/resultsSouthernEngland.html
The potential for methane emissions from groundwaters of the UK
https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/4867/
Emerging role of wetland methane emissions in driving 21st century climate change
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1618765114
How peat could protect the planet
One complication in the effort to re-wet peatlands is that restored wetlands will produce some amount of methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas. But Joosten says that this will be more than balanced by the reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. Overall, re-wetting has a net benefit for the climate. Rather than aiming to turn global peatlands into sinks, he says, a more realistic near-term goal is to make bogs carbon neutral.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00355-3
Mitigation of methane emissions from constructed farm wetlands
use of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment may therefore result in ‘pollution swapping’ by increasing CH4 emissions (Reay, 2004)
Estimating wetland methane emissions from the northern high latitudes from 1990 to 2009 using artificial neural networks
The amount of CH4 emitted from wetland soils is determined by the balance between CH4 production and consumption
*Restoring tides for Ch4 reduction"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12138-4
Predominance of methanogens over methanotrophs in rewetted fens characterized by high methane emissions
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/15/6519/2018/
Fracking
https://frack-off.org.uk/locations/
OSB decomposition in land fill
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23942265/
1-s2.0-S0956053X13003371-main.pdf
Rocket fuel
Precedents
Italian grotto
Archigram balloons + tree plug
Dymaxion House
OMA serpentine pavillion
Expo '70
Energy infrastructure surplus for leisure: Icelandic thermal baths
image inspiration
http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/project.php?id=136
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdxvGZIMc-p/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Albrecht Altdorfer _ Landscape with a Double Spruce _ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/379633/mycelium-pigeon-towers
Oyster mushrooms grown on wetland reed bed to form mycelium blocks and infill formwork. Capturing methane produced by constructed wetlands
Milton:
Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest; as when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool; There swallowed up and lost, from succour far.
Twitter links:
Twitter brain has been making me feel guilty about expecting anyone to read more than 140 characters on this, so I will attempt to absolve myself with a tl;dr on interesting things that fell out of it in as few tweets as possible…
Research on OSB as the base for mycelium infused construction suggests ways to form CO2 -ve structures and combined with the ecology of a constructed wetland could re-create a Renaissance Grotto as landscape retreat…
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrified-waters
And the wetland peat formation is a vital CO2 sink, but there’s a danger of ‘pollution swapping’ from additional methane creation…
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00355-3
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004565350901399X
Which we may be able to mitigate but perhaps we can also plan for collection and use in controlled ways, like lighting, kilns or rockets…
or accidentally awaken a long lost microbial extremophile species…
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2014.0206
and we need to plan ahead because OSB, a much used building material, appears to be a poorer CO2 sink than other timber materials when it eventually ends up below ground…