The Future... Captain's Log Stardate 2007.
In May, Urban Re:Vision a San Francisco-based international competition created by Archiventure founder Stacey Frost, announced the winners of Re:Volt, the first of five planned jury competitions designed to “create the national prototype of sustainable urban living.”
Yup, I cut and pasted that because it was a mouthful.
Bottom line, if you want to have some fun on a Friday with “out of the box thinking” on alternative energy technologies and scenarios, check out this piece from the Flex Your Power blog.
I have to admit, I was a little thrown by the idea of using helium balloons with solar panels to “capture the kinetic energy of commuters in energy-harvesting floors,” but the rest of the stuff makes a little more sense (in a completely “out there,” impossible to implement sort of way).
This is our future in California, though. Once we have legislated ourselves into a corner, these types of things might not sound so far-fetched.
Volt Competition Winners Challenge Us to Rethink Urban Development [Felxyourpower.org]
Yup, I cut and pasted that because it was a mouthful.
Bottom line, if you want to have some fun on a Friday with “out of the box thinking” on alternative energy technologies and scenarios, check out this piece from the Flex Your Power blog.
I have to admit, I was a little thrown by the idea of using helium balloons with solar panels to “capture the kinetic energy of commuters in energy-harvesting floors,” but the rest of the stuff makes a little more sense (in a completely “out there,” impossible to implement sort of way).
This is our future in California, though. Once we have legislated ourselves into a corner, these types of things might not sound so far-fetched.
Volt Competition Winners Challenge Us to Rethink Urban Development [Felxyourpower.org]
posted by CalEnergyGuy at 9:12 AM
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