Trash Into Treasure: South Korea Builds FIRST Landfill-Powered Hydrogen Station
By Ariel SchwartzThu Sep 3, 2009
landfill
Landfills now have a use besides stinking up large areas of land. The South Korean government is working on a project to produce hydrogen from natural biogases (aka methane) produces in landfills.
The facility, which is being built by SK Engineering and Construction along with oil refiner SK Energy in Nanjido, will be the first to generate hydrogen from methane. When complete in November 2010, the station will pump out enough hydrogen to fuel two buses and two cars valued at $4 million with onboard hydrogen fuel cells. More importantly, the facility will produce 320 kilowatts of energy to generate electricity and hot water for a nearby art studio. So while hydrogen fuel cell technology is minor player compared to electric vehicle technology, the methane-to-hydrogen plant is still useful for heat and electricity-generating abilities.
The Korean government has been doing everything it can to transform Nanjido, which used to be Seoul’s official dump site. After stopping trash from accumulating in 1993, South Korea turned the island into an “ecology park” and started channeling methane into wells that heat up the Seoul World Cup Stadium. Of course, if Korea really wants to turn Nanjido into an ecology park, it should consider vaporizing its trash.
Maybe it means you should open up a huge free Laundromat worked by Monkeys (and you only have to make one mind control device because Monkey See Monkey Do) and bring all other laundromats in town to bankruptcy, freeing up the real estate, and make Universitys of Evil there!
ummm why are they making some sort of stupid artist movement with clothes when those clothes should totally be given to charity. stupid selfish starving artists.
Actually, it kind of reminds me of those pictures of the warehouses at places like Auschwitz: The mountains of shoes, clothes and personal possessions taken from Jews before they were gassed and burned… spooky… Though I think I get the artists theme here: Excess
I remember a dream I had as a child that my mother took me to the Salvation Army and in out in the back alley was a pile ‘o toys, trash heap style and kids were allowed to crawl around in it and on it and pick out free toys. The thing is I’m not sure if it was actually a dream, because I remember having the toys I picked out.
O_O My God, did my mom really let me crawl around on that dirty, bug infested, death trap?
I’m pleasantly surprised at how many people actually recognized the exhibition here. The clothes were borrowed from charities that donate clothes, as it were, and given back when the thing was over. And yeah, it does represent the concentration camps.
How did these people get access to my closet?
This is what you find in a teenagers bedroom!!
FIRSTTTTTTTTT
hey look! its my room!
Trash Into Treasure: South Korea Builds FIRST Landfill-Powered Hydrogen Station
By Ariel SchwartzThu Sep 3, 2009
landfill
Landfills now have a use besides stinking up large areas of land. The South Korean government is working on a project to produce hydrogen from natural biogases (aka methane) produces in landfills.
The facility, which is being built by SK Engineering and Construction along with oil refiner SK Energy in Nanjido, will be the first to generate hydrogen from methane. When complete in November 2010, the station will pump out enough hydrogen to fuel two buses and two cars valued at $4 million with onboard hydrogen fuel cells. More importantly, the facility will produce 320 kilowatts of energy to generate electricity and hot water for a nearby art studio. So while hydrogen fuel cell technology is minor player compared to electric vehicle technology, the methane-to-hydrogen plant is still useful for heat and electricity-generating abilities.
The Korean government has been doing everything it can to transform Nanjido, which used to be Seoul’s official dump site. After stopping trash from accumulating in 1993, South Korea turned the island into an “ecology park” and started channeling methane into wells that heat up the Seoul World Cup Stadium. Of course, if Korea really wants to turn Nanjido into an ecology park, it should consider vaporizing its trash.
yes I agree, if they only know what waste really looked like instead of having a blind eye….
its so so good this concept….we should take a leaf out of their book too in Australia….
“And here, this just says ‘Big Laundry’,… I can’t remember what that’s about…”
OMG! I LOVE DR. D!!!!
Maybe it means you should open up a huge free Laundromat worked by Monkeys (and you only have to make one mind control device because Monkey See Monkey Do) and bring all other laundromats in town to bankruptcy, freeing up the real estate, and make Universitys of Evil there!
Or alternatively you could make an evil Zinc Ray.
this was an exhibition in Paris.. I was there. It actually made me think of concentration camps.
ummm why are they making some sort of stupid artist movement with clothes when those clothes should totally be given to charity. stupid selfish starving artists.
it was for a show about holocaust in the Grand Palais in Paris in february…
Hmmm… we’re going to need more Tide…
And a gigantic washer and an equally gigantic dryer.
Go green instead and just put it all on a reeeeealy long clothes line
Actually, it kind of reminds me of those pictures of the warehouses at places like Auschwitz: The mountains of shoes, clothes and personal possessions taken from Jews before they were gassed and burned… spooky… Though I think I get the artists theme here: Excess
Sorta reminds me of the shoe piles from the Holocaust.
I guess I’m the only one who sees a pile of anime-esque characters in the pile of clothes? Maybe I’m seeing patterns that don’t really exist…
I think this is from an installation by a French artist named Christian Boltanski. It’s really beautiful.
it looks like a crane game for clothes!
I remember a dream I had as a child that my mother took me to the Salvation Army and in out in the back alley was a pile ‘o toys, trash heap style and kids were allowed to crawl around in it and on it and pick out free toys. The thing is I’m not sure if it was actually a dream, because I remember having the toys I picked out.
O_O My God, did my mom really let me crawl around on that dirty, bug infested, death trap?
Oh crap! I left my keys in my pants pocket.
Fasion selection hell; No two pieces coordinate – not one single match in the entire pile. And they’re all synthetic.
All the socks are left socks! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I’m pleasantly surprised at how many people actually recognized the exhibition here. The clothes were borrowed from charities that donate clothes, as it were, and given back when the thing was over. And yeah, it does represent the concentration camps.
Does any one have 50 cents? I wanna play this crane game!!!
This picture ‘s been taken during an exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, for ‘monumenta 2010′, i recognize it
ooooooK…. now i’m freaked out…. there are more clothes in here than in Doc’s closet…. (*OI! Not funny!*)
So *THAT’S* where all of my socks go when the dryer eats them!