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The CSUN Subtropical Rain Forest Project
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY POWERS CSUN
- Rain forest = ¼ Acre and has 8 cooling towers placed strategically throughout the forest.
- The 6.3 Gal per/hour (9,000 + Gal per/day) of waste water from the Fuel Cell is collected in a 12,000 gal storage tank and used to irrigate the rain forest through a Gravity Flow System.
Utilizing nearly 100% of the waste stream from the fuel cell and satellite chiller plant as its only support.
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- Unifies technology and nature to maximize the sustainable aspect of an already cutting edge technological power and heating/cooling plant.
- Establishes CSUN (and PPM) as one of the leaders in sustainable systems for all academic institutions worldwide.
- Establishes CSUN as the only educational facility in the world to have an outdoor subtropical rain forest fully sustained from conventional industrial waste byprodicts and optimally sequesters more CO2 from our environment.
- Establishes CSUN as the only fuel cell and chiller plant in the world which recycles nearly 100% of its waste streams for the purpose of support and operation of a subtropical rain forest.
- The warm, humid air is drawn down through the towers and pumped out at 360° during the day (during photosynthesis) to help the plants grow bigger and faster.
- BioChar added to the soil to promote growth of the tropical plants selected. The BioChar also assists in the natural collection of CO2 from the atmosphere into the soil as well as promoting plant growth and the natural consumption of the CO2 by the foliage.
