Swedish Body Heat For All

There’s some creative engineering at play in Stockholm’s Central Station where developers have established a way to harvest body heat and use it as an energy source. Over 250,000 people pass through the station a day giving off large amounts of body heat. This body heat is then collected by heat exchangers and converted into hot water which is piped straight to the heating system of a building across the road. Pretty amazing stuff. Full story on BBC.

Similarly Italian architect David Fisher is hoping to get his Dynamic Towers project up up and away soon. These ambitious buildings constantly move to give their inhabitants moving views from their balconies. More importantly though the buildings generate more than enough electricity to power each apartment. Info video here.

Green building ahoy.