Comments on: Flower Street BioReactor by Emergent

By: yaniv

yaniv — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:25:11 +0000

Teddy,

This seems to me to be a concept design, there by implying that the final form can and will probably adapt. I mean that in relation to the positioning of the PV cells.

One other point to be made is that pv cells act much like leaves in that they are light dependant. When one looks at a tree one can see that there are hundreds of leaves that distributed in complex fashion in three dimensions, not all of which recieve direct light. The latestes generation of PV cells act in this same fashion in that they are able to efficiently create energy even though they do not recieve direct light. Refer to FX magazine Janurary 2009 p71 DYE SOLAR CELLS (DSC) or directly look at http://www.dyesol.com

By: niwar

niwar — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:04:56 +0000

good work go on

By: josh

josh — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:45:55 +0000

Would be interesting to see an engineer design this and compare the results. Think the engineer would win…

By: teddy taset

teddy taset — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:06:13 +0000

@yaniv
sorry, but i guess it doesn’t make a lot of sense to attach solar cells to a tree that will cast shadow on these cells, no?
next to that – nice form (again).

By: yaniv

yaniv — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:49:56 +0000

i cant believe that you have the nerve to make such comments and not have a clue about design… This is fantastic, it infuses design and environment!! well done.

Photobioreactors are the most efficient way of producing biofuel! they produce around 200 times more oil/hectare then any other form of biofuel production method. Those of you with no clue… go read something. Emoting expertly does not mean you are an expert!

By: archcritic

archcritic — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:40:51 +0000

they are really obsessed with this ONE form…..

By: nik

nik — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:41:34 +0000

I think there’s something refreshing from taking a performative approach to public art. It explores a certain way of implementing a complete and integral system on a small scale. And of course efficiency would improve with lowered formal intent, but the whole point is that it’s a billboard, and supposed to draw attention to itself.

By: gab xiao

gab xiao — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:08:54 +0000

can’t this dude produce anything else but the same shape, over and over again?…

By: KJS

KJS — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:11:02 +0000

I’m not understanding how a “shift from thinking about energy as something which comes magically from distant sources to something which can be generated locally in a variety of ways” goes together with creating “a sense of delight and exotic beauty around new technologies by decontextualizing them and amplifying their potential atmospheric and spatial effects.”

By: bill

bill — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:41:09 +0000

Wonder how much oil it produces in relation to the price and formal extravagance . Photsynthesis is a highly rational process, while this doesn’t look very rational by my opinion.