Genetron Systems ‘Short Notes’ – “Umbilicals”

The main ecosystem consists of a combination of  Living Wall, Water Wall, Mesh Wall, “Breathing Wall™” TM, Waterfall, Cork Tree, Land, Shoreline and Water; with a sump in the equipment room, close to the main ecosystem. There is also a reservoir for demineralized, ‘RO’ /  rain water in the equipment room.

From this sump in the equipment room, we can supply/feed the “umbilicals”, that are pumped out to, with system water and recycled by draining back to the system sump (sump pumps can be additionally used where gravity draining to the sump can not be achieved).

The objective of the ‘umbilicals’ is to create multiple smaller healthy living ecosystems throughout the building – including remote locations, so that a person feels like they are living inside a living body with veins and a heart/pump, pumping out fresh blood/water and taking back spent or used blood/water to be purified and oxygenated.

Instead of a normal HVAC system pumping out inefficiently, thousands of cubic feet per minute of air ( not necessarily fresh ), now a ¼” or ½” line can pump out a few gallons of ‘hungry’ fresh water per hour, to absorb all the carbon dioxide and pollution, while releasing oxygen back into the space.

With a large enough main ecosystem and its ‘umbilicals’, throughout a space, a building can be totally  sealed and have fresher air inside than outside.

With no or very minimal air recirculation, all that is needed within each area are ceiling fans, for air movement to allow for adequate transpiration of the plants --- this is how plants ‘breathe’! This is also how the spent air passes by the ‘umbilical’ ecosystem to help absorption into the water.

Examples of ‘umbilicals’ are: 

1) Planters

2) Breathing Wall™

3) Fish Tanks

4) Fish Tanks with plants growing out of the top

5) Mini Ecosystems --- like the main ecosystem

6) Water Walls

7) Mesh Wall ecosystems

8) Hanging Babylonian drip gardens

9) Etc. --- whatever the mind could imagine……..

Of course, the Breathing Wall™ ‘umbilical’ is the most aggressive air rejuvenating system of all the ‘umbilicals’, while perhaps, it, itself , being the least processor; bringing more pollutants more quickly to drain back to and be handled by the main system.

Other ‘umbilicals’, while more passive, process most or all pollutants on location; only being reinforced and supported by the main system. Naturally, if these ‘umbilicals’ need to deal with high loading, the whole of the system should be larger.

Requirements for the ‘umbilicals’ are: a ½” feed line and a ¾” -1” drain line/pipe back to the sump. These can drain to a 1 ½” drain pipe to the sump in series. If there are a large enough number of ‘umbilicals’, then the main drain pipe to the sump may need to be a 2” pipe.

Each ‘umbilical’ needs an electrical supply; mostly for lighting but also to drive a fan or ceiling fan.

Where plants are placed on desks or need to be moved around, we have “satellites”. These are separate unites not connected to the main system, but have a large water reservoir and are watered with system water only; once a month.

This way, every plant expression/system contributes to the air quality. In fact, we want to discourage potted plants in soil altogether, because of the amount of toxic pollutants that are released by the putrefying soil of these potted plants----creating unnecessary work and loading of the ecosystem----necessitating a much larger system to handle the additional loading!