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At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was to find a material that could sit above an underground parking garage, which could only support a limited weight. In addition, the park’s design brief called for “a complex landscape that offers experiential range” with varied character, scale, and seasonal attributes. To build any kind of varied topography and support the planned winter “ice ribbon” and play spaces, it was necessary to use a fill material that was lighter than soil. Geofoam, at approximately 1/100 the density of dirt, was the obvious solution.
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But effectively using renewable sources also means capturing the electricity at the moment it's produced and keeping it available for use when demand is high or because weather events like dunkelflaute, "dark doldrums," periods of cloud cover with little wind, mean that production is low. This requires energy storage, whether it's for hours, days, or even weeks.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
It makes no difference whether it lasts a long time or whether it lasts a short time.
A galaxy goes together with all the universe just as much as a mosquito. You can get a certain vision of life where everything is seen to be a complex pattern of rhythm dances the human dance the flower dance the bee dance the giraffe dance.
And that's what this all is, it's jazz. You see? This is a big jazz, this world. And what it's trying to do is to see how jazzed up it can get. How far out this play of rhythm can go.
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David OReilly
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