Lottie's Notebook

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

Fandom: Dragon Age (Origins) Relationships: Morrigan/Female Tabris Rating: Mature Summary: Morrigan meets the Tabris family. Soris meets his match

“Nelaros — her husband, did she tell you she had a husband?”

She did not, she thought, but did not say. It did not matter: he seemed to read it in her face, and another bitter laugh exploded out of him, drowning out the dissonant piping of the music, and continued: “No, of course she didn’t. Loves to tell a story, does Lu, and when she starts, the world believes it, and spins around her, and for five damn minutes, you think everything’s going to be alright… and then the story ends, and the rest of us have to pick up the pieces. He was one of the pieces, you understand? He believed in whatever she sold him — happily ever after, true love, heroes and princesses, whatever passed between them — enough that he stormed the Arl’s villa to save her, and I, idiot that I was, I went after him. After her, because she was a hero, like her damn mother, because she made me think I could be-”

“Perhaps you should have left the heroism to her, then, as she seems the fitter for it,” she cut in, hoping to drive him away with a well-placed barb, but apparently his moonshine had numbed him to any pain but whatever had driven him to bother her in the first place.

“You would say that, I’ve seen how you look at her- not that you’d be the first,” he added, hastily, at her glare. “She does this to people- to everyone! Look at all our neighbours.” He nodded out into the square, where a mob that had assembled to kill them had fallen to drinking and revelry at the promise of a song. “If Loghain burns down the Alienage to smoke her out, it’ll be on her, but for now, she’s everyone’s darling. Again.”

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Morrigan finally meets the family! Surely nothing will go wrong and we'll all have a lovely time at Shianni's party! Right? Right?

Together at last. x x Cleaned up the boys a little so the set matches better, and they were a bit scruffy, lol. Incidental 90s pop band au (you’re welcome and I’m sorry) XD;;;;

A couple scenes from a little gay vampire story I was kicking around a couple years ago! I sometimes do little pencils-only scenes for things and never post them. But I was looking back at these and was like why not? They're cute!