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[permaculture] Re: Biosphere 2 Redux...
on 1/10/05 9:01 AM, permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org at
permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> - Would be nice if B2 could be donated to the Permaculture Institute on behalf
> of the
> greater Permaculture world community.
Sorry.... I should have researched my last comment about the $1 million
heating bill.... I remembered hearing something on NPR. And, in Arizona,
it's not just heating, but cooling as well that makes the electrical meter
spin.
Here's a quote from Scientific American, two years back, that puts the power
bill at about $600,000 a year...
> Young mentions the enormous cost of controlling the tide and keeping the
> various plots at the right temperature; the energy bill runs about $50,000 a
> month, according to the communications office. Without the cooling and
> ventilation system, things get hot quickly under the unrelenting desert sun.
> Once when the local power grid failed, Young recalls, the rain forest shot
> from 85 to 120 degrees F in just 15 minutes.
<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000CE09C-BA2A-1CED-93F6809EC5880
000>
The Biosphere 2 project is as Over-Funded as it is Badly Designed. Compared
with the fantastic research on Earth Arks done by Dr. John Quinney... Who
was a pioneer in the North American Permaculture movement, BTW.... And
others at the New Alchemy Institute back in the '70s...
<http://www.fuzzylu.com/greencenter/home.htm>
Along with Soleri's work at Arcosanti, which is the epitome of Permaculture
design and ethical principles realized in the Urbanized Architectural
form...
<http://www.arcosanti.org/>
Biosphere 2 is a $200 million Parody of Sustainability. I think of it as
the "evil twin" of Arcosanti... You might as well think of it as a
structural form of "disinformation" built by a Texas Oil Billionaire as an
experiment in "off planet" living. Consider the freaking source here! Not
to mention the bizzare intent....to "re-invent" the planet for use somewhere
else. Geezuzz!!!!!
The best thing that came out of Biosphere 2 was a Pauly Shore movie. And I
don't thing much of Pauly Shore.
Biosphere 2 really pisses me off. It always has.
Sorry.
Will
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