Since this ridiculousness is making the rounds, here is *actually* how much of the planet we’d need to use in order to meet ALL our ENERGY needs using only renewables. It’s not that large really. A lot of it can be on rooftops and share land with agriculture.

⚡💦 "Solar Waves" by Antonio Maccà (Italy) incorporates solar photovoltaic (similar to Solaxess), battery storage, and rainwater harvesting to produce 120 MWh of electricity and 300,000 liters of filtered water each year.🌟🌊

⚡💦 "SigaWai Canopy Park" by Jie Zhao, I-Shan Tam, Yan (Jennifer) Zeng, and Liang Ma (United States) incorporates solar photovoltaic, hybrid battery and ice storage, rainwater harvesting, and wetland filtration to produce 135 MWh electricity and one million liters of filtered water each year.🌟🌴

⚡💦 "Marou Vula" by Adrien Thivolle (France), incorporates solar photovoltaic, battery storage, rainwater harvesting with fabric-covered bladders, erosion control through native plantings, and coastal composting stations to produce 132 MWh of electricity and 450k liters of drinking water each year. 🌟

⚡💦 "Tanoa: The Bowl of Life" by Puya Khalili, Iman Khalili, and Abdolaziz Khalili (Canada) incorporates solar photovoltaic, battery storage, and integrated rainwater harvesting and filtration to produce 135 MWh of electricity and 732,500 liters of filtered water each year. 🌟

⚡💦 ⛵ "Land Sails" by Karen Curtiss, Mark Myers, Camille Peignet, Lisa Farmen, Anika Chakravarti, and Henry Gao, uses thin-film solar PV, batteries, and aquifer recharge, to produce 134 MWh of electricity and store 8.8 million liters of rain each year in a wetland zone with 3-stage water treatment.

What happens when we think about energy landscapes less as monocultures of panels behind fences and more holistically as places for people—combining land uses for energy, water, agriculture, education, and culture? What if we invite communities to be a part of the design process from the start?

🌞💦"TALI-TALI-LAND," a submission to LAGI 2025 Fiji by Boon Hau Lim and Pyaezone Aungsoe (Japan) incorporates modular solar photovoltaic with battery storage and rainwater harvesting to produce 150 MWh of electricity and 1,225,000 liters of filtered water each year. ⚡🔌💡 Learn more at lagi2025fiji.org

🌞🔧🌏🌿"Vanilla Energy" by Eszter Kardos and Kovács Lorinc combines solar PV, battery storage, rainwater harvesting, UV/SODIS water purification, & vanilla farming to produce 120 MWh of electricity, a million liters of filtered water, and 1,000 kg of green vanilla beans each year. 💦⚡💡 lagi2025fiji.org

🌞 "Between the Sky & Earth" by Yi Yang Chai and Ng Yi Ming uses bifacial solar photovoltaic, battery storage, rainwater harvesting, and constructed wetlands to produce 233 MWh of electricity and 720,000 liters of filtered water each year. As a tourist attraction it supports the local economy. ⚡💡

💦🌏"Vatu Rua Kaukauwa" by Jonathan Hernandez and Felipe Romero Vargas (Germany and Australia), incorporates solar photovoltaic, vertical-axis wind turbines, battery storage, and rainwater harvesting to produce 224 MWh of electricity and 564,000 liters of filtered water each year. ⚡💡 lagi2025fiji.org

🌞🔧🌏"Independence," by Parimah Nasirzadeh, Erfan Nabavizadeh, Leila Shirazi, Fatemeh Daneshvar, and Khashayar Ghasemzadeh (Italy), incorporates solar PV, battery storage, modular planters, and rainwater harvesting to produce 250 MWh and 1 million liters of filtered water /year. 💦⚡💡 lagi2025fiji.org

🌞🌳"Solar Forest," a submission to LAGI 2025 Fiji by Daniel Cueto Mondéjar (Belgium), incorporates semi-transparent bi-facial solar photovoltaic panels, battery storage, and rainwater-harvesting to produce 120 MWh of electricity and 450,000 liters of filtered water each year. 💦⚡ lagi2025fiji.org

🌞"Unleashing the Vanua" by Jisoo Kim, Seung Hyo Chang, and Jisoo Kim, incorporates solar photovoltaic, battery storage, constructed wetlands, and stormwater harvesting with UV purification to produce 130 MWh of electricity and 1.2 million liters of filtered water each year.⚡ lagi2025fiji.org

🌿"Drau," a submission to LAGI 2025 Fiji by @tamagastudio—Mateusz Góra and Agata Gryszkiewicz (Poland)—incorporates solar photovoltaic, battery storage, and rainwater harvesting to produce 160 MWh of electricity and 1.245 million liters of filtered water each year (40 modules).⚡ lagi2025fiji.org

"Vaka ni Lomani" a submission to LAGI 2025 Fiji by Kaixi Yang, Victor Pineda Torres, and Nicc Moeono-Alaiasa, incorporates solar PV, battery storage, rainwater harvesting, biofiltration, and microhydro to produce 126 MWh of power and 600k liters of filtered H2O per year. See more at lagi2025fiji.org

🌞 "Sky Letters: Letters to the Invisible," a submission to LAGI 2025 Fiji by Dai Fen Zeng and Pengyan Wu (United States) incorporates solar photovoltaic, rainwater harvesting, and battery storage to produce 268 MWh of electricity and 1,196,800 liters rainwater each year. See more at lagi2025fiji.org

☀️🌿"Solar Leaf" by Iranian artist and engineer Iman Sheikhansari, incorporates solar PV, battery storage, and rainwater harvesting to produce 120 MWh of electricity and 600,000 liters of filtered water each year. This land art installation is clean energy inspired by nature! lagi2025fiji.org

🌏✨ The Village of Marou, in partnership with LAGI, proudly announces the winners of the LAGI 2025 Fiji design competition—artworks in the landscape that generate clean energy and water while reflecting the vision of Marou residents for a sustainable and resilient future. ⚡💧🌴 🔌 💡 🔧 🌏 lagi2025fiji.org

205 teams from 45 countries reimagined energy & water systems responding to a brief co-created with the community of Marou Village, Yasawa Islands, Fiji. 🌺⚡💡💧 Winners of #LAGI2025 Fiji will be announced later this month. Vinaka to all who entered and to our incredible jury! 🌍✨ See lagi2025fiji.org

Join us this Earth Day at City Hall in Houston as we join an esteemed group of civic leaders to announce the official location of the Arch of Time at Mason Park, a cherished East End public space. Arch of Time will provide a beautiful new gathering space and fully power the park with solar energy!

LAGI 2025 FIJI is featured in Dezeen as a top design competition! There is still time before May 5th to put together your proposal and help establish a new paradigm for the co-design of an equitable, climate resilient, and authentically sustainable future. Learn more here: lagi2025fiji.org

So I googled "what does 216 kg of plastic waste look like" and found this video. Multiply this pile 2.16 times and that is what every average American blows through in one year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Sf...

Join us at Houston's Mason Park this Saturday, where the LAGI directors will be presenting the Arch of Time, a Land Art Generator public artwork by Riccardo Mariano.

Enter the LAGI 2025 Fiji design competition to win one of two $100,000 awards and demonstrate your innovative solution for energy and water systems. The project is a partnership with Marou Village, Fiji, a small coastal community on the frontlines of climate change. Free to enter. lagi2025fiji.org

Interesting design perfect for green roofs, northern latitudes, and twin peak (morning/evening) demand.

Ten years ago a @landartgenerator.bsky.social infographic was adapted by Adult Swim for one of their bumpers. 🤣 You can find the original "Surface Area Required to Power the World with Solar" here: landartgenerator.org/blagi/archiv... It has been used by the IEA and many others over the years.

One of the energy-intensive aspects of DAC is the industrial fan used to increase the flow of air across the absorbent or other CO2 catalyst. I can imagine massive DAC sails that operate at an acceptable efficiency using the passive flow of the wind. What might that look like?

Download the free LAGI Field Guide to Regenerative Water Technologies and learn about dozens of ways to harvest, convey, store, and treat water. It's part of the reference materials for LAGI 2025 Fiji, a global design competition to advance resilient clean energy & water systems for island nations.

Funding Opportunity: Attention organizations and projects with ambitions to advance progress in the fields of heritage conservation, the environment, and social justice... @jmkfund.bsky.social is awarding $175k to 10 early-stage innovators. Apply for the 2025 by 4/25/25 #JMKInnovationPrize

The latest Q+A.pdf document from Feb 7, 2025 is ready to download at lagi2025fiji.org. If you are creative and want to build a better world, consider entering for free. You could be selected as the lead designer on a pilot project intended to improve sustainable development for a changing climate.

Join us this Thursday, January 30, when we will be hosting two Zoom sessions about the LAGI 2025 Fiji design competition. Times are U.S. Eastern: Thursday January 30, 2025 lagi2025fiji.org/zoom1.html 11:00 AM ET Thursday January 30, 2025 lagi2025fiji.org/zoom2.html 7:00 PM ET

A new LAGI 2025 Fiji Q+A document is available on the competition registration and submission site. lagi2025fiji.org/supplemental... Some very interesting questions with answers that go into more detail about the LAGI 2025 Fiji design guidelines. Register for free to receive email updates.

The LAGI 2025 Fiji competition calls on creative minds worldwide to shape the future of clean energy and water in island communities. This unique challenge merges art, sustainability, and community empowerment, offering $200,000 in rewards. Deadline is May 5, 2025. Free to enter.