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Amazing Energy Tower in Denmark generates electricity from trash

09/04/2014

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Erick Van Egeraat's Roskilde Energy Tower

Dutch architect <a title="Erick van Egeraat Designed Glowing Energy Tower To Power Roskilde From Trash" href="http://www.erickvanegeraat.com/" target="_blank">Erick van Egeraat</a> designed this amazing power plant in <a title="Erick van Egeraat Designed Glowing Energy Tower To Power Roskilde From Trash" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskilde" target="_blank">Roskilde</a> that generates energy from waste. The Energy Tower produces both electricity and heat through the process of <a title="Erick van Egeraat Designed Glowing Energy Tower To Power Roskilde From Trash" href="http://inhabitat.com/dutch-incinerator-cathedral-to-transform-waste-into-energy/" target="_blank">incineration</a>, and features a perforated double-layer façade that glows through the night.

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Erick Van Egeraat's Roskilde Energy Tower

Roskilde's power plant incinerates rubbish from nine local municipalities as well as selected international locations to generate electricity and heat for the historic city.

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Erick Van Egeraat's Roskilde Energy Tower

The building's unique façade is made up from two different layers - a <a title="Erick van Egeraat Designed Glowing Energy Tower To Power Roskilde From Trash" href="http://continuingeducation.construction.com/article.php?L=354&C=1096" target="_blank">climatic barrier</a> and an outer skin made from <a title="Erick van Egeraat Designed Glowing Energy Tower To Power Roskilde From Trash" href="http://inhabitat.com/house-77-is-a-modern-home-sheathed-in-a-funky-perforated-aluminum-facade/" target="_blank">punched</a> aluminum.

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Erick Van Egeraat's Roskilde Energy Tower

This dramatic second skin is made from <a title="Erick van Egeraat Designed Glowing Energy Tower To Power Roskilde From Trash" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umber" target="_blank">umber</a>-hued aluminum plates that feature laser-cut <a title="Erick van Egeraat Designed Glowing Energy Tower To Power Roskilde From Trash" href="http://inhabitat.com/melbournes-advanced-technologies-centre-by-h2o-architects-looks-like-a-gigantic-lego-brick/" target="_blank">holes</a> that allow light to shine through.

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Erick Van Egeraat's Roskilde Energy Tower

The <a title="Erick van Egeraat Designed Glowing Energy Tower To Power Roskilde From Trash" href="http://inhabitat.com/prefabricated-bank-campus-cashes-in-on-sustainability/" target="_blank">architect</a> explains: “At night the backlight perforated façade transforms the incinerator into a gently glowing beacon - a symbol of the plant’s energy production.”

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Erick Van Egeraat's Roskilde Energy Tower

He continues, “Several times an hour a spark of light will gradually grow into a burning flame that lights up the entire building. When the metaphorical fire ceases, the building falls back into a state of burning embers.” Brilliant.

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Erick Van Egeraat's Roskilde Energy Tower

<big><a title="Erick van Egeraat Designed Glowing Energy Tower To Power Roskilde From Trash" href="http://www.erickvanegeraat.com/" target="_blank">+ Erick van Egeraat</a></big>

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The Pollee Urinal by UiWE: Because Girls Sometimes Need to Pee in Public Too!

07/15/2011

by Tafline Laylin

Pollee by UiWE

If you're a girl who has envied how easy it is for guys to pee in public, Copenhagen-based <a href="http://www.uiwe.dk/">UiWE's</a> Pollee urinal might be just what you've been looking for. The company has developed three very cool prototypes of ladies-only urinals that - unlike the more individualistic <a href="http://inhabitat.com/need-to-go-p-tree-makes-public-urination-sanitary/">P-tree urinals</a> recently profiled for men - present girls with a more communal and sanitary public peeing option. Of course, some ladies are more shy than others, so UiWE tested out three different versions with varying levels of privacy at the rocking Roskilde festival in Denmark earlier this month.

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Pollee by UiWE

Women need to pee in public too!

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Pollee by UiWE

But don't want to wait in long queues to do so.

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Pollee by UiWE

So UiWE conceived three prototypes of portable ladies-only urinals.

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Pollee by UiWE

They were recently tested at the Roskilde festival in Denmark.

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Pollee by UiWE

With varying levels of privacy.

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Pollee by UiWE

The Pollee consists of four urinals wrapped around a central core.

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Pollee by UiWE

Which allows ladies to have a more communal peeing experience.

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Pollee by UiWE

Handles on the side provide stability.

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Pollee by UiWE

As the girls squat over the urinal.

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Pollee by UiWE

It's not clear what kind of materials are being vetted.

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Pollee by UiWE

But this design appears to be more sanitary, and less wasteful than conventional portable loos.

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Pollee by UiWE

And judging by these photos taken at the Roskilde festival....

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Pollee by UiWE

Peeing in a Pollee is more fun too!

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Pollee by UiWE

If you're a girl who has envied how easy it is for guys to pee in public, Copenhagen-based UiWE's Pollee urinal might be just what you've been looking for. The company has developed three very cool prototypes of ladies-only urinals that - unlike the more individualistic P-tree urinals recently profiled for men - present girls with a more communal and sanitary public peeing option. Of course, some ladies are more shy than others, so UiWE tested out three different versions with varying levels of privacy at the rocking Roskilde festival in Denmark earlier this month.

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