Space Age Sustainability

International Space Station design here on Earth. There is now a very smart new building in Mountain View, California; NASA’s Sustainbility Base, a building that thinks, learns, and creates more energy than it uses.

This LEED Platinum rated structure is loaded with space-age technologies. Sensors allow the building to detect changes in temperature, sunlight, wind, and occupancy, and make energy saving adjustments with the use of a photovoltaic array, a wind turbine, and a grey water recycling system.

Thumnail image by NASA with vectorization from Fry1989, via Wikimedia Commons. This image is in the public domain.