SOLARLEAF Bio-Reactor Façade
The BIQ Building in Hamburg, Germany boasts the world’s first bio-reactive façade. It generates renewable energy from algal biomass and solar thermal heat, paving the way for living buildings as a renewable energy source to lower operational carbon.
The following webpage encourages the user to interact with the scale and buttons available to understand the potential of these bio-reactors to produce energy in kWh/m2.
Instructions:
Click Start to randomise CO2 bubbles and Radiation.
Select a value in the CO2 and Location scale and then click Restart.
Watch how the output kWh/m2 and days to full yield changes.