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9th May 2013 19:57
Link to Post #4541
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9th May 2013 20:07
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Re: Up At The Ranch And Beyond
From Stephen A. Schwartz ...
Algae-powered apartment complex blooms in Hamburg
BIQ House, a 15-unit net-zero energy apartment complex clad with an algae-filled bio-adaptive shell,
is completed in Hamburg, Germany, as part of the International Building Exhibition.

"It can be done. We can build a different kind of world. It is not technology but attitude that has to change.
As you read this contrast it with the piece on North Carolina in yesterday's edition.
Click through to see the pictures of the apartment building."
MATT HICKMAN - Mother Nature Network
Algae-powered apartment complex blooms in Hamburg
BIQ House, a 15-unit net-zero energy apartment complex clad with an algae-filled bio-adaptive shell, is completed in Hamburg, Germany, as part of the International Building Exhibition.
Today, here’s a look at a freshly completed residential complex in Hamburg, Germany, where even Slimer would feel right at home. And while it may not contain an ounce of ectoplasm, tiny photosynthetic organisms commonly associated with pesky green slime are key to the zero-energy structure’s groundbreaking renewable energy systems.
As the world’s first building powered by algae, the 15-unit Bio Intelligent Quotient (BIQ) House generates biomass and heat with the assistance of 129 integrated glass bioreactor panels (read: microalgae harvesters) measuring .78 inches thick and covering approximately 2,150 square feet of the four-story structure's southeast and southwest facing sides. Most conveniently, the algae-cultivating bio-façade provides the building with thermal insulation, shading from direct sunlight, and noise reduction in addition to generating a ready-to-harvest source of biomass...
Read More - http://www.mnn.com/your-home/remodel...oms-in-hamburg
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9th May 2013 20:44
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Re: Up At The Ranch And Beyond
UFO Overhead Described as Slow Moving and Disk Shaped ...

"Vermont witnesses at St. Albans reported watching and videotaping a "bright, saucer-like object" slowly crossing overhead from south to north on May 6, 2013, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The reporting witness and other family members were outside in their yard about 10 p.m. when the object was first seen.
"My son, daughter, neighbor and husband saw it and we were able to take pictures and video," the reporting witness stated. "The object was so slow and low and made no noise and lasted long enough that we all had enough time to get our phones on it."
The object appeared to be intelligently controlled" ...
more here - http://www.examiner.com/article/verm...c-ufo-overhead
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9th May 2013 22:34
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