Sunday, September 1, 2013

Living Machines

Dwell has an interesting article, A Look at Living Machine Systems, in which they toured the San Franscisco Public Utilities Building, a LEED Platnium building where a biological waste water treatment system referred to as the "Living Machine" was installed. The video below explains how the living machines works to process waste water into water for irrigation.



3 comments:

  1. Andy,

    There are competing companies using this kind of system - John Todd, who was one of the original developers of this system now calls them eco-machines. Be sure to check out his website too: http://toddecological.com/

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  2. Andy,

    There are competing companies using this kind of system - John Todd, who was one of the original developers of this system now calls them eco-machines. Be sure to check out his website too: http://toddecological.com/

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  3. Worrell Water funded Todd's research for many years and in 1999 bought all the rights to Living Machine and since have invested heavily in R&D. The Living Machine tidal wetland system does not look nor operate the way Todd's Eco-machines do as his systems are based on older designs.

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