Science is Fun Fridays!
Aaron Dysart, of St. Paul, Minnesota, combines his love of art and science.
This installation is called "Latitude."
He used the tube dancers you often see outside car lots or cell phone stores and linked them to eddy flux towers gathering atmospheric data across the globe.
"They don't just measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, they measure the direction in which it is moving. So scientists can figure out if the land is releasing more CO2 or sequestering it."
The colors displayed alternated based on data from a sustainable wastewater research project by Paige Novak.
Manufacturing creates waste, including brewing beer. The wastewater is full of carbon-containing compounds that require a lot of energy to treat.
Novak's team is working on treatment technology that can be used onsite, and the installation presents the amount of usable energy produced by the technology and the reduction of carbon-containing waste compounds realized through the pilot at the brewery. Sometimes the lights went out as the bioreactors went down - "a variability of real science."
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