I follow Kickstarter, and today they featured this “art” project in Copenhagen that plans to make the carbon footprint of a new powerplant visible city wide. Personally, I don’t see the point of it, but then again some of the best art is often based on what others would consider irrational thinking.
From the Kickstarter project page:
By 2017 the citizens of Copenhagen will not only be able to ski down the cleanest power plant in the world – their perceptions of what a power plant can be will be challenged by an art piece that raises awareness of our carbon emissions. The world’s first steam ring generator will puff out a steam ring for every ton of CO2 burned in the plant. Help us turn fiction into fact!
By sweeping nothing under the carpet, but rather projecting our carbon footprint onto the Copenhagen sky, we provide every single citizen intuitive information to help them inform the decisions they make for their lives and for the city that they want to live in.
Based on an original art proposal by the Berlin-based artists realities:united, we are designing the chimney to utilize the plant’s excess steam in collaboration with Peter Madsen’s Rumlaboratorium, as well as the Danish Technical University. In the future, if you come to Copenhagen, all you will have to do is look at the Copenhagen sky and count the rings. Each one will signify the emission of a single ton of CO2.
Now if we can just get journalists to properly label steam coming out of power plants in those tiresome photoshpped choices of “smokestacks” for every “power plants are evil” story, we might get somewhere.
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For the life of me, I can not fathom what the message is supposed to be with these “steam rings”. They appear to be saying; “even this ultra “green” power plant belches nasty, planet-destroying “carbon” into the air. Thus, unless you live in a mud hut eating leaves and twigs, and shiver in the dark, you are guilty of destroying the planet.”
The should stick a generator that blows smoke rings on Capitol Hill or Parliament Hill so that the people can see when the politicians are blowing smoke.
Cloud rings are not made of steam, steam is invisible.
Why does this remind me of reading A Wrinkle in Time in elementary school?
This happens naturally. Just like almost all CO2.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/15/article-2507799-196DBBB300000578-15_964x421.jpg
It also happens industrially. We have had two recently, in UK factory fires.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/14/article-2604240-1D1BF24500000578-384_634x724.jpg
How about a giant whoopee cushion to bleat forth the production of each and every ton of that other anthropofarted greenhouse gas, methane? Gotta get the message to our youth, especially those middle schoolers.
If one is going to go to the trouble of making a giant smoke ring generator – why not send up SO2 rings that could offset the CO2 produced by the power plant — It was once suggested (Kaufman et al.1991 ) that a molecule of SO2 is 50x to 1000x more ‘cooling’ than a molecule of CO2 warms 🙂
I’m not clever enough, but I’ll bet there will be a drinking game coming soon 🙂
We can only hope someone gives the Planned Parenthood treatment to these climate “scientists.”
https://youtu.be/CiNGP9Rn_xs
BTW, dolphins blow air bubbles similar to smoke rings.
https://youtu.be/mHyTOcfF99o
The world’s first steam ring generator will puff out a steam ring for every ton of CO2 burned in the plant.
How do you “burn” CO2?? Oxidise it to CO3 or CO4 ????
Isn’t steam a greenhose gas anyway?