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CO2PENHAGEN - The World's First Co2-neutral Festival
This is the first time ever that a music- and artfestival runs entirely on renewable energy.
CO2PENHAGEN takes place at Denmark’s Technical University just outside Copenhagen on September 4-6 2009, with 3000 visitors expected every day.
The goal is to visualize the knowledge already present at technical universities and spotlight businesses’ green products. It all takes place in a CO2-neutral miniature society surrounded by art and music.
The festival is an entertaining event that proves that green energy can coincide with great design. Renewable energy is more than solar panels and windmills. CO2PENHAGEN is developed through collaborations between businesses, local and international artists and Danish students. Students at Denmark’s Technical University are some of the main drivers behind the collaboration.
One of the CO2PENHAGEN founders, Katrine Vejby, who worked as a BBC producer for ten years, says:
“It is going to be wild and visionary. CO2PENHAGEN will be an entertaining event unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. The festival states Denmark’s position as a frontrunner within user driven innovation and design”.
CO2PENHAGEN reduces energy use by implementing innovative low-energy technologies. In comparison with a traditional festival of the same size, CO2PENHAGEN will only use half the amount of energy. This is made possible from the use of low energy technologies found at the Technical University of Denmark, such as absorption cooling (cooling from exces heat), solar cells and LED-lighting.
All installations at the festival, including scenes, bars, and light installations, receive energy from plants that produce renewable energy. The plants are found at DTU, thus making all energy locally produced. The energy comes from a Stirling-motor, a Viking-gasify system, and two generators that run on 2nd generation bio-ethanol and DME. Solar cells and bicycles will also be used to generate energy.
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