{"id":4466,"date":"2014-02-06T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2014-02-06T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:52:13","slug":"interactive-algae-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/interactive-algae-farm.html","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Algae Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This article was taken from the Feb 2014 issue of Wired magazine . Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2014\/02\/start\/interactive-algae-farm\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2014\/02\/start\/interactive-algae-farm\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Algal architecture is on the rise: in early 2013, Arup unveiled an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2013-04\/16\/first-algae-powered-building\">algae-powered building<\/a>\u00a0in Hamburg with a &#8220;bioadaptive&#8221; fa\u00e7ade; and researchers in Barcelona are developing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/05\/start\/a-concrete-proposal-for-flowery-walls\">biological concrete<\/a>\u00a0that uses microalgae. Cesare Griffa, a Torinese architect, is taking a more networked approach: &#8220;I believe that we can achieve good performances by working on single components so they collaborate to build a distributed intelligence, rather than building a top-down system,&#8221; he says. His\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cesaregriffa.com\/\">WaterLilly<\/a>\u00a0project is a series of photobioreactors for the home &#8212;\u00a0he calls them &#8220;responsive architecture components&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Each WaterLilly has an electronic nervous system made up of sensors, controllers and actuators: when their owners approach, the unit reacts by boosting light and CO2 bubbling, increasing the algae&#8217;s metabolism. Griffa accordingly likes to think of his microalgae as &#8220;timid organisms who do not disdain company&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Griffa created the first WaterLilly in 2012, with the bioreactor pictured. He wanted to bring together algae culturing and urban farming (algal biomasses can be processed to produce carbon-based molecules for use in energy and food). Recently, he created small-scale DIY starter kits for consumers. Next, he&#8217;s working to replace plastic components with biomaterials and to grow the small-scale components to cover entire fa\u00e7ades. &#8220;We are boosting the algal community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was taken from the Feb 2014 issue of Wired magazine . Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2014\/02\/start\/interactive-algae-farm\u00a0 Algal architecture is on the rise: in early 2013, Arup unveiled an\u00a0algae-powered building\u00a0in Hamburg with a &#8220;bioadaptive&#8221; fa\u00e7ade; and researchers in Barcelona are developing\u00a0biological concrete\u00a0that uses microalgae. Cesare Griffa, a Torinese architect, is taking a more networked approach: &#8220;I believe that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,6,13,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae","category-algae-energy-investments","category-algae-energy-products","category-algae-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}