AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Climate Action
KEYWORDS
climate change, CARBON DIOXIDE, Biofilter
COUNTRY
Chile
DESIGNED BY
The Design to Improve Life is the result of the join work of María Italia Videla Vidal, Veterinarian and Viviana Videla Vidal, Marine Biologist. The idea started 7 years ago and has matured because it is a complex multifactorial problem, which Nature has taken hundreds of years to solve.However modern science has better tools to achieve the design. At the moment there is no financial support, but the idea is to work with a University, Research Center and/or Private Sector.The solution is urgent.
WEBSITE
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8k3ZcBeaQ1KTm5rQnBZUlpqNTA/view?usp=sharing
Bioturbe: Natural Biofilter for greenhouse gases
Is time for ecosystems to adapt to climate change for food security and sustainable development.
To count only on natural processes like Photosynthesis to reduce Carbon dioxide is not enough. It is necessary to develop natural and sustainable solutions to directly reduce greenhouse gases.Peatlands Ecosystem have acted as atmospheric Carbon dioxide and Methane sinks and have contributed to global cooling for millennia.Contain about 1/3 of carbon reserves atmospheric by a slow accumulation process and contain twice as much carbon as all the forest together.The prototype placed on a tall tower or at level of the street, redirects the surrounding air with high levels of Carbon dioxide and Methane by forced aspiration, and passes through the selected Peat Biofilter.There is a biogeochemical transformation to finally release to atmosphere a column of air with less greenhouse gases.Biofilter reproduces vertical structure of Peatland with two zones defined by its degree of saturation of oxygen and water. Aerobic and anaerobic microbiological activity occurs in oxic zone and anoxic zone.
