Eventually it'll be like the Lorax where you have to buy a bottle of air if we dont take action on the very real global warming. Seriously, why do we need to debate facts? Global warming is a fact, not an opinion.
As much as I love this, the information is misleading.
The actual canopy is currently being demonstrated as a small installation (as shown in the picture), but the plan is to scale it up for Expo Milano 2015's Future Food District.
Only the larger installation will produce as much oxygen as four hectares of woodland, along with 150 kg of biomass, 80 percent of which will be natural vegetal proteins.
You can read more about it here:
1. http://www.gizmag.com/urban-algae-canopy-milan-expo/37480/
We aren't funding this because of 2 reasons. One photosynthesis is at best only 2% efficient and not all of the energy is put into make oxygen, some is put into making hydrocarbons, if you wanted oxygen then water electrolysis would be more efficient. Two why, the would is not running out of oxygen. Global warming is caused by the presence of green house gasses (like CO2) not the absence of oxygen. At the end of the day it would be better to just plant a actual tree.
The actual canopy is currently being demonstrated as a small installation (as shown in the picture), but the plan is to scale it up for Expo Milano 2015's Future Food District.
Only the larger installation will produce as much oxygen as four hectares of woodland, along with 150 kg of biomass, 80 percent of which will be natural vegetal proteins.
You can read more about it here:
1. http://www.gizmag.com/urban-algae-canopy-milan-expo/37480/