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So we're asking for human artifice to become a living thing, and we want growth, we want free energy from sunlight and we want an open metabolism for chemicals.
We studied the winds and the sun to make sure everybody in the city will have fresh air, fresh water and direct sunlight in every single apartment at some point during the day.
With less steel we were getting more sunlight in, which meant we didn't have to put as much extra heat in winter.
And finally, in the shade under the mirrors, it's possible to grow all sorts of crops that would not grow in direct sunlight.
It has only, on one side, this big, big glass window that helps to let the sunlight enter deep into the space and create a beautiful quality there and a great dynamic range.
It could also be the sunlight that breaks through the clouds and lights up a patch of the land, highlighting it compared to the dim environment.
It can dive to 500 feet, to where sunlight does not penetrate, and is equipped with powerful lights.
And anybody who's done school biology remembers that chlorophyll and chloroplasts only make oxygen in sunlight, and it's quite dark in your bowels after you've eaten spinach.
But I would say this: I think that sunlight is the best disinfectant.
So, the basic idea of solar geoengineering is that we can cool things down just by reflecting a little bit more sunlight back into space.
One that was published recently by David Keith at Harvard is to take chalk and put dust up into the stratosphere, where it reflects off sunlight.
So nowadays in the operating room, we no longer need to use sunlight.
And because we no longer need to use sunlight, we have very specialized lights that are made for the operating room.
When you see the planet looking like a blue-green marble the way it does in this picture, you're seeing it because the sunlight is reflecting off of it, and that's why you can see the oceans, the clouds, the land.
Small changes in Earth's orbit that occur over tens to hundreds of thousands of years alter the distribution of sunlight on Earth.
When there is more sunlight at high latitudes in summer, ice sheets melt.
Shrinking ice sheets make the planet darker, so it absorbs more sunlight and becomes warmer.
So, in one instance, in one peek out the window of the sub, we discover something that revolutionizes the way we think about life on Earth; and that is, you don't always have to have sunlight to get life going.
Single-celled life that transforms sunlight and carbon dioxide into edible gold.
At 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface, sunlight is barely a glimmer.
All of the red circles are the symbiotic algae that live inside the coral tissue, turning sunlight and into sugars they both can use, and all of the little blue dots are the protective bacteria.
And we need a lot of sunlight in this troubled world.
It's an age of vast promise, an age of collaboration, where the boundaries of our organizations are changing, of transparency, where sunlight is disinfecting civilization, an age of sharing and understanding the new power of the commons, and it's an age of empowerment and of freedom.
Luminosity was an issue, when you have too much bright sunlight outside.
We hide in dark, windowless rooms, and generally avoid sunlight.
You've been seasoned by wind, dusk and sunlight.
It's a very good mirror to sunlight.
We take earth's materials, make them into stuff we want, use it for a while, often only once, and then throw it away, and that is pushing us over planetary boundaries, so we need to bend those arrows around, create economies that work with and within the cycles of the living world, so that resources are never used up but used again and again, economies that run on sunlight, where waste from one process is food for the next.
We think we can also personalize sunlight.
So we've looked at articulating mirrors of the facade that can throw shafts of sunlight anywhere into the space, therefore allowing you to shade most of the glass on a hot day like today.
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