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This Algae Farm Eats Pollution From the Highway Below It
Yet another reason why Switzerland is such an amazing place, recently a highway overpass has been installed with an algae farm! Algae (if you didn’t know) consumes sunlight and CO2 and replaces it with oxygen – making urban locations with high emissions the perfect places for algae farms.
It was installed this summer as part of a festival in Genève. Take a look!
Click here to view the embedded video.
So basically, the Algae Farm absorbs the emissions of cars that pass below it while being supplemented by the sunlight. A series of pumps and filters regulate the system, and eventually the algae grows into what can be turned into combustable biomass, material for use in cosmetics and other consumer-facing products.
I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a technology that may end up spearheading the future of fuel!
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/11/this-algae-farm-eats-pollution-from-the-highway-below-it/
