Elisabeth Tereshko : "Dr Klaus Lackner, Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia University, came up with an innovative idea to reduce CO2 emissions in urban environments. Taking from his daughter’s prize winning 8th grade science fair project, Dr Lackner designed a machine that would pull CO2 from the air. Lackner’s daughter’s project proved that CO2 could be extracted from the air by using a fish tank pump and a battery. Lackner took his daughter’s idea further by designing his structure to act like a living tree. Inspired by Dr Lackner’s discovers, in Boston, MA, the Boston Treepod Initiative, developed by Mario Caceres and Christian Canonico of Influx_Studio from Paris France, in collaboration with ShiftBoston are proposing to use this environmental friendly technology to help curb CO2 gases in the city. By using biomimicry, or drawing inspiration from nature, Influx_Studio developed their tree-like structure to be powered by both solar and kinetic energy…
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> Klaus Lackner invention : http://bit.ly/TxjBE2
> Influx_Studio : http://bit.ly/YY2sZe
> ShiftBoston : http://bit.ly/TxjYPb