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Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Architects: Architectus (Australia) & Ingenhoven Architects (Germany).
Owners: DEXUS Property Group, DEXUS Wholesale Property Fund, Cbus Property.
1 Bligh Street was completed in 2011 and is a 27 level sustainable elliptically designed office space in the heart of Sydney’s CBD.
It has been awarded a 6 star green star rating - the highest awarded in NSW.
90% of all the steel used in the project contains more than 50% recycled content.
All the timber and plywood used in the structure is recycled from FSC accredited sources.
94% of all the construction waste (37,000 tonnes) has been recycled.
80% of all PVC-type products have been replaced with non-PVC materials.
One of the main features is a 135m naturally ventilated atrium.
The building also features floor-to ceiling double-skinned glass.
The cavity between the the two skins has an aluminium louvred sunshade system that is computer controlled.
This process reduces air-conditioning usage by 50% and controls the light in the building.
At the top of the building is a stunning roof top timber terrace.
The roof also features 500sq. metres of glass-tubed, steam creating, solar collectors.
The building generates approx. 25% of its energy consumption via a tri-generation plant using solar and gas.
This plant produces energy for electricity, heating, & cooling.
On the ground floor is a glazed and naturally ventilated wintergarden.
1 Bligh Street also features a dedicated child-care facility, two cafes, and a car park for 96 cars.
Below ground level is an innovative black water recycling system that provides 90% of the building’s water requirements.
The City of Sydney council granted 1 Bligh Street with the first licence in the CBD to extract sewage from the mains for recycling for private use.
All the rainwater that falls on the building is also collected for usage. The building produces 100,000 litres of clean water per day.
The office complex also features Australia’s largest vertical garden on its southern side which is 40m long and features approx. 11,000 plants.
Sources
1 Bligh Street website
ABC TV show Catalyst website.
Sydney Architecture website
Sydney Open.
A bi-annual event run by Sydney Living Museums in conjunction with the Sydney Architecture Festival.
50 buildings around the heart of Sydney open their doors to the public.
Some of these buildings are not usually open to the public.
Purchasing a ticket called City Pass gives you access to these buildings for a full day.
There are also special Focus Tours that provide guided tours of more restricted buildings.
In 2014 these included tours of Harry Seidler buildings and also historic places like the Tank Stream & the QVB Dome.
Free courtesy buses provide transport for the event.
I spent the day hanging out with Ian Burrows and had a great time.
Ian does great some work & you can check out his photography here: Beetwo77
Apart from a little crop , top , left side and lower , it's as was out of camera , on my trusty Fuji SL240
Teccccccccy stuff ! Firstly , it was nearly at sunset , up at " the Polish Place " , on the Scenic Rim in Queensland ...... the pic , one of three or four taken using the screen , seriously though , NOT ,
through viewfinder and lens !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Handheld , but strap pulled tight !
For some reason though it would not load up onto flickr 14th Aug. this morning . only loading about 10.00 tonight ..... kept on telling me it was unsuitable ??????
For more conventional pics, there are some in my " the Polish Place " album or for lots more info, go to www.thepolishplace.co.au
Two views of one of the interesting technological sights as you head closer to Port Augusta. This is Sundrop Farm - consisting of this amazing 127 metre tall solar collector tower, combined with 24,000 mirrors aiming the plentiful sunlight at the collector. It produces electricity to provide power for desalination of the salt water from the nearby Spencer Gulf and provide heat and cooling to the 200,000 square metres of greenhouses, all of which help produce a continuous and sustainable supply of food. I believe, if you have eaten truss tomatoes purchased from Coles supermarkets, there is a good chance that they were grown right here. There is some great information and video of this amazing place on the Sundrop Farm website if you are keen to learn more. I was suitably amazed.
Being a very long lens, and taken from some distance away, this has picked up the amazing shimmering heat haze being generated on the day, and highlights how much the sun can heat the area when it was only a mild 18 degrees C.
Most of the lights are back on now from the massive power outage that struck parts of Southern California. It did not affect us here. Nice to know there are alternatives are available!
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Electric charging station.
Karlskrona stadsförs., Blekinge, Sweden
Karlskrona Sweden
My reworking of the brilliant Land Art Generator images 'Suface Area Required To Power The World' with one alternative energy source added :)
Originals are here:
www.landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
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here's my maths (probably wrong, please correct me if so)
total world energy needs per year:
198,721,800,000,000 kwH
average energy output of a human per hour
0.1 KW per human (100 watts)
365 days at 24 hours a day = 8760 energy hours per year per human
0.1 KW x 8760 hours = 876 KWh energy generated per human per year
world energy needs divided by human supply
198,721,800,000,000 / 876 = 226,851,369,863 humans required
Human body occupies
2m x 1m = 2square metres
assuming machinery and spacing between human batteries
4m x 2m = 8 square metres
requires
1, 814,810,958,904 metres for all human batteries
1.8 trillion square metres
or
18,148,810,958 = 18 billion square kilometres
world land surface area is:
148,940,000 square kilometres (wikipedia)
so would require 221 billion humans to be stacked 121 rows high across the entire land surface of the earth.
very dystopian!
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At 510 MW, the Ouarzazate Solar Power Station is the world's largest station using concentrated solar power technology (it also includes photovoltaic panels that produce another 72 MW). This tower belongs to the Noor III component. It stands 250 m tall and is 20 km (12 mi) distant here. Heliostat mirrors collect sunlight and focus it on the top of the tower, where it yields molten salt. The molten salt serves for heat transfer to a turbine and heat storage.
Here in California the hummers re-energize by capturing the solar power directly to the wings.......
As I mentioned before there is a lot of rubbish getting washed up on Dubai’s beaches and yesterday evening I found yet again an unusual item lying in the sand. This time it was a long, thin light bulb that looked like it was out at sea for a long time. Solar power? Not quite, but the sun sure looks nice through the glass…
To view the blog entry go to: www.momentaryawe.com/blog/?p=822
This one for sure looks better on B l a c k M a g i c
Todays challenge for the daily shoot We get energy from a variety of sources. Make a photograph of the energy that's most important to you.
This shot was inspired by and dedicated to Dave DiCello www.flickr.com/photos/evad310/ who does amazing sun flare shots, do got check out his superb stream, this is not in the league of his, but I am happy enough with it
As soon as I saw todays assignment for the daily shot I thought the power of the sun was a shot I wanted to get, as all my shots are pretty much using natural light so without the sun I wouldnt get many shots, but was getting worried as it was such a changeable day today sunny one minute cloudy and raining the next, unfortunately for most of the morning and early afternoon I was in meetings during the sunny spells so was thinking of reconsidering and took some shots of horsepower aka motorbike engines, but then I saw the sun out and popped and got this shot, and its close to what I wanted with some sun flare
The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, in the Mojave Desert, below Clark Mountain near the California border with Nevada, along Interstate 15. This series was shot on a flight from Newark to Los Angeles, two years after I shot the same scene from the highway, on the ground.
Added to Monthly Scavenger Hunt (MSH) September 2013 10. New Accrual
These four flower power producers (there's a fifth one off-frame to the right) made their debut as solar energy collectors last month at Seattle Center. You can conduct your own electronic symphony by interacting with them--they produce harmonic tones as you move around them.
They're a demonstration project for alternative energy sponsored by Seattle City Light.
Brand new solar panels on our roof. With the guaranteed infeed compensation in Germany the investment will have amortised in about 5 years, with 15 more years of guaranteed returns.
Gossamer Penguin in flight above Rogers Dry Lakebed at Edwards, California, showing the solar panel perpendicular to the wing and facing the sun. The first flight of a solar-powered aircraft took place on November 4, 1974, when the remotely controlled Sunrise II, designed by Robert J. Boucher of AstroFlight, Inc., flew following a launch from a catapult. Following this event, AeroVironment, Inc. (founded in 1971 by the ultra-light airplane innovator--Dr. Paul MacCready) took on a more ambitious project to design a human-piloted, solar-powered aircraft.
The firm initially took the human-powered Gossamer Albatross II and scaled it down to three-quarters of its previous size for solar-powered flight with a human pilot controlling it. This was more easily done because in early 1980 the Gossamer Albatross had participated in a flight research program at NASA Dryden in a program conducted jointly by the Langley and Dryden research centers. Some of the flights were conducted using a small electric motor for power. Gossamer Penguin The scaled-down aircraft was designated the Gossamer Penguin. It had a 71-foot wingspan compared with the 96-foot span of the Gossamer Albatross. Weighing only 68 pounds without a pilot, it had a low power requirement and thus was an excellent test bed for solar power. AstroFlight, Inc., of Venice, Calif., provided the power plant for the Gossamer Penguin, an Astro-40 electric motor.
Robert Boucher, designer of the Sunrise II, served as a key consultant for both this aircraft and the Solar Challenger. The power source for the initial flights of the Gossamer Penguin consisted of 28 nickel-cadmium batteries, replaced for the solar-powered flights by a panel of 3,920 solar cells capable of producing 541 Watts of power. The battery-powered flights took place at Shafter Airport near Bakersfield, Calif. Dr. Paul MacCready's son Marshall, who was 13 years old and weighed roughly 80 pounds, served as the initial pilot for these flights to determine the power required to fly the airplane, optimize the airframe/propulsion system, and train the pilot. He made the first flights on April 7, 1980, and made a brief solar-powered flight on May 18.
The official project pilot was Janice Brown, a Bakersfield school teacher who weighed in at slightly under 100 pounds and was a charter pilot with commercial, instrument, and glider ratings. She checked out in the plane at Shafter and made about 40 flights under battery and solar power there. Wind direction, turbulence, convection, temperature and radiation at Shafter in mid-summer proved to be less than ideal for Gossamer Penguin because takeoffs required no crosswind and increases in temperature reduced the power output from the solar cells. Consequently, the project moved to Dryden in late July, although conditions there also were not ideal. Nevertheless, Janice finished the testing, and on August 7, 1980, she flew a public demonstration of the aircraft at Dryden in which it went roughly 1.95 miles in 14 minutes and 21 seconds.
This was significant as the first sustained flight of an aircraft relying solely on direct solar power rather than batteries. It provided the designers with practical experience for developing a more advanced, solar-powered aircraft, since the Gossamer Penguin was fragile and had limited controllability. This necessitated its flying early in the day when there were minimal wind and turbulence levels, but the angle of the sun was also low, requiring a panel for the solar cells that could be tilted toward the sun. Using the specific conclusions derived from their experience with Gossamer Penguin, the AeroVironment engineers designed Solar Challenger, a piloted, solar-powered aircraft strong enough to handle both long and high flights when encountering normal turbulence.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: ECN-13413
Date: July 25, 1979
I've been meaning to photograph this power plant. As I drove by it tonight, I liked the lighting. I stopped, took my photo equipment out, and hiked up a small hill.
Economics still continue to push power plants, including this one, to convert electricity production from coal-sourced to gas-. This plant still has one coal-fired generating unit left of what used to be four. The other three were converted to natural-gas fired combustion turbines a few years ago. Situated on the Dix Dam, this plant also generates hydro power and solar power to a much lesser degree.
CHANNEL MARKING
One of the most important functions of marine aids to navigation is to keep larger vessels or any boats that have deep draft out of shallow areas where they could run aground and be stranded !
Running aground has always been one of the greatest dangers to marine traffic and shipping, so consequently an elaborate system of channel markers has evolved to help boat operators and ship captains steer their vessels through the potentially treacherous waters that are usually found near land !
Channel markers make use of natural corridors of deep water, such as river beds and tidal cuts, as well as man-made canals and dredged deep water channels created for the purpose of navigation !
Thanks To Mia ~ Now Identified !
Update
A cardinal mark is a sea mark (a buoy or other floating or fixed structure) used in maritime pilotage to indicate the position of a hazard and the direction of safe water.
Cardinal marks indicate the direction of safety as a cardinal (compass) direction (north, east, south or west) relative to the mark. This makes them meaningful regardless of the direction or position of the approaching vessel, in contrast to the (perhaps better-known) lateral mark system.
The characteristics and meanings of cardinal marks are as defined by the International Association of Lighthouse Authorities.
A cardinal mark indicates one of the four compass directions by:
the direction of its two conical top-marks, which can both point up, indicating north; down, indicating south; towards each other, indicating west; or away from each other, indicating east
its distinctive pattern of black and yellow stripes, which follows the orientation of the cones - the black stripe is in the position pointed to by the cones (eg at the top for a north cardinal, in the middle for a west cardinal)
optionally, its distinctive sequence of flashing light, which consists of a sequence of quick or very quick flashes whose number gives the clockface position which corresponds to the direction of the cardinal (eg three for an east cardinal, nine for a west; north has continuous flashes, and south may be augmented with a long flash, to help distinguish it from a west in difficult conditions)
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An electrician in the Launceston suburb of Alanvale has gone the full Chevy Chase in "Christmas Vacation" this year.
I was also excited to see when editing this photo that the camera had picked up the constellation of the Seven Sisters (Pleiades). It is 444 light years away from earth. I'll take that as a little Christmas present in this photo. Those in the northern hemisphere will see that the constellation is 'upside down' compared to your view.
As long as the fossil fuel lobby has a free hand in Washington D.C. and the state capitols, the potential for renewable energy, such as solar power, will never reach its full potential.
The fossil fuel lobby's all-out push for fracking will permanently destroy our nation's landscape and poison our water FOREVER. It will be akin to a toxic nuclear effect without the radiation. Thus the meaning for the image shown here.
Image No.2 with heavy tone-curve processing.
Visited the beautiful US state of Vermont again last week. I think this picture sums it up well - green mountains, nature, solar power, fields of flowers, and the old truck is an added piece of foreground interest bonus.
Solar Navigation
One of the navigation lights at the entrance of the Inner Harbour on Alderney, Solar powered now :)