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Waste in Venice

Waste in Venice
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Waste was one of the ‘fronts’ Aravena identified in his opening statements for the 2016 Venice Architecture Bienalle. By now we’ve all either seen or seen images of the exhibition entrance features – you know the ones.  You’ll probably also have been told those installations were made from 10,000 sq.m of plasterboard and 14 km of metal studs from […]

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Waste . . . zzzzt . . . Energy.

Waste . . . zzzzt . . . Energy.
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Waste disposal’s suddenly gotten sexy! Here’s the lowdown, with much thanks to waste-management-world.com. Plasma arc gasification is a high-temperature process whereby the waste solids (a.k.a. carbon-based material, organic matter, shit, etc.) are superheated in the absence of oxygen and converted into a synthesis gas – syngas – that is mostly carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Leftover inorganic materials and minerals produce a vitrified […]

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