During our discussion last Wednesday (9/17) we continued on our path of making something out of the 'danger zones'. This time our focus was mainly on the water in the site and how we could channel that water in a way to make it useful to us. We were playing with the idea of a hydroelectric power plant. Karl suggested the idea of living machines; as an alternative to generating power, we could instead filter the water through natural processes. I am familiar with living machines because I had to do a study on them in my engineering 100 class freshman year. I have posted some pictures of smaller scale living machines. A living machine begins with dirty water and through a series of natural filtering processes (ie. - plants, rocks, sand, fish, sun) you end up with clean water.
During our discussion last Wednesday (9/17) we continued on our path of making something out of the 'danger zones'. This time our focus was mainly on the water in the site and how we could channel that water in a way to make it useful to us. We were playing with the idea of a hydroelectric power plant. Karl suggested the idea of living machines; as an alternative to generating power, we could instead filter the water through natural processes. I am familiar with living machines because I had to do a study on them in my engineering 100 class freshman year. I have posted some pictures of smaller scale living machines. A living machine begins with dirty water and through a series of natural filtering processes (ie. - plants, rocks, sand, fish, sun) you end up with clean water. 
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