Regular readers will know that I have a love of both quality sci-fi and sensible environmental solutions to our planet's travails, so this idea from Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut ticks all my boxes..... except perhaps the one marked simple and quick to install. But why pick holes with an idea that includes airships powered by seaweed. That's got to be ace hasn't it? Briefly, Monsieur Callebaut has dreampt up a sustainable air-cargo ship/office block that is powered by renewable bio-gas from fast-growing organic matter.
The full story is here on treehugger and whilst it is easy to dismiss as a mad scientist's flight of fancy, it does show the kind of integrated big thinking that is needed - not just for practical advances covering several problems at once - but in setting an engineering agenda too. And it looks super-cool to boot.
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