{"id":165951,"date":"2010-01-11T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5445338"},"modified":"2010-01-11T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:50:00","slug":"in-my-uberutopia-i-ride-a-floating-whale-garden-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/165951","title":{"rendered":"In My Uberutopia I Ride a Floating Whale Garden [Concepts]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/physalia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_physalia.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>Let&#8217;s put realism aside for just a moment and imagine a world in which boats swim through rivers, skimming out pollutants through natural biological filters (plants). Now let&#8217;s up the ante, and shape these boats like whales.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Callebaut can take credit for this idea, a whale-shaped boat garden named Physalia. Powered by solar panels and hydro-turbines (how these sub-aquatic turbines don&#8217;t slow the boat, I don&#8217;t really understand), the boat cruises through dirty water, soaking up the bad stuff with onboard plants and purifying water with its <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Titanium_dioxide\">titanium dioxide<\/a> surface.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever, so long as it also swallows swimmers on command, I&#8217;m happy.<br \/> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> gawkerGallery(5445325,4,''); <\/script>[<a href=\"http:\/\/vincent.callebaut.org\/page1-img-physalia.html\">vincent.callebaut<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/freshome.com\/2010\/01\/08\/physalia-a-huge-amphibious-garden-cleaning-waters-across-europe\/\">freshome<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2010\/01\/11\/whale-shaped-floating-garden-cleans-the-worlds-rivers\/\">inhabitat<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e7a34baf0e150892c3a91b10c76bbb11&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e7a34baf0e150892c3a91b10c76bbb11&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lAPhNhWXaDy1oT3fBiPHuzktE2M\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lAPhNhWXaDy1oT3fBiPHuzktE2M\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lAPhNhWXaDy1oT3fBiPHuzktE2M\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lAPhNhWXaDy1oT3fBiPHuzktE2M\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IWelZxka2cQ:GQ6RBykSI54:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IWelZxka2cQ:GQ6RBykSI54:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IWelZxka2cQ:GQ6RBykSI54:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=IWelZxka2cQ:GQ6RBykSI54:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IWelZxka2cQ:GQ6RBykSI54:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=IWelZxka2cQ:GQ6RBykSI54:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/IWelZxka2cQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s put realism aside for just a moment and imagine a world in which boats swim through rivers, skimming out pollutants through natural biological filters (plants). Now let&#8217;s up the ante, and shape these boats like whales. Vincent Callebaut can take credit for this idea, a whale-shaped boat garden named Physalia. 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