Algae Lamp Project

French biochemist pierre calleja has invented a lamp filled with algae which absorbs co2 from the air.

Algae lamp project. The latro lamp features a battery that stores energy generated by the algae throughout the day and a light sensor that controls the lamp s intensity preventing the algae from becoming malnourished. Find the major pigments for your algae strain. The use of two layers give you the chance to diffuse the intensity of the internal color creating a delicate and cheerful atmosphere. If you watch this 2013 tedx video at 9 35 you see what seems to be algae in a tank giving light.

Basically an algae lamp can remove as much co2 in one year as a tree would in its lifetime. Discover it at the innovation convention. Figure 5 shows a design for a street lamp. Carbon dioxide is pulled into the chamber through one of the openings and there is a separate part of the chamber with glass walls to flood the green algae with sunlight so they can perform photosynthesis.

In this lamp the light is white although algae are enclosed throughout the fixture. In this lamp the algae are housed in a glass case that is above the actual light fixture so the light appears white. Breathing into the handle of the lamp provides the algae with co2 whilst the side spout allows the addition of water and release of oxygen. Project on algae lamps in 2013.

Placing the lamp outside in the daylight the algae use sunlight to synthesize foods from co2 and water. Algae is a suspension lamp inspired by this memories resembling an seaweed suspended in the air constantly changing its shape depending on the angle from where you look at it. Algae are incredibly easy to cultivate requiring only sunlight carbon dioxide co2 and water offering a remarkably simple way of producing energy. Carbon dioxide emission is a major issue today.

Set up your light next to your tank wavelengths of light and the pigments that catch them. I suspect in the movie they use an external light source to provide light to the algae they need light and co2 to grow. However never in the video did the inventor use the words algae lamp or did he say that the algae are providing energy. A light sensor monitors the light intensity only permitting the leeching of electrons when the lux.

Algae lamp absorbing 150 200 times more co2 than a tree. Instead he says that he wants to use these street lamps for carbon sequestration so the algae are not for lighting. Its made of two acrylic surfaces which embrace a compact fluorescent tube hiding the entire electronic system. Choose a light that emits radiation in correct range pretty much all lights to be absorbed by the pigments in your algae.

As advances in nanotechnology lead to increasingly energy efficient products plant life such as algae will become. Thompson believes this discovery could lead to an algae revolution.