The new armour for running waste to energy plant is an innovative model in the fields of waste management and energy production. It will be complete in 2016, just three kilometres from downtown Copenhagen. It will be the single largest facility of its kind in Denmark, costing 500 million euros. This remarkable plant seeks to change the way waste management and energy production is understood. Rather than hiding drab industrial processes, the plant hopes to reconnect the dames to the issues behind waste management. The architectural concept by the Danish firm Bigg will convert the plant into an artificial landscape drawing the people of Copenhagen in. The public roof of the new armour for running will be a 31,000 square metre park and include a snow slope for skiers of all levels. The Berlin Artists Group Realities United have designed an elegant exhaust system for the plant. It transforms the smoke emitted into a symbol of the path our waste follows into the atmosphere. Instead of a steady stream of exhaust, the plant emits one giant smoke ring for each quarter tonne of CO2 it produces. The rings are 25 metres in diameter and 3 metres high. As they slowly rise and cool, the water within the gas clouds condenses, revealing each ring shortly after it floats away from the plant. Realities United designed a simple mechanism to create these rings. An elastic cylinder on the roof expands to store the plants exhaust, when exactly a quarter of a tonne of CO2 has filled the drum, a shutter opens and the drum suddenly contracts, expelling the gas into the sky. While leaving the drum, the gas begins to rotate due to the friction between the air and the gas particles. This giant demonstration of the Bernouille principle lasts several minutes. The rings are stabilised by the motion of the particles as they float off into the atmosphere, slowly dissolving. This phenomenon can also be found in nature. Smoke rings measuring up to 200 metres in diameter have been observed at Mount Edna. The smoke clouds reinstate in our KIA communication method to transport a simple fact. Exactly 250 kilograms of carbon dioxide have just been released into the atmosphere. On a clear day, this message will be broadcast throughout the city. Approximately 1 million of them per year, released as an endless stream ring-bow ring into the atmosphere. This solemn procession gives the abstract emissions debate, shape and scale. People can see it and count it. Still, it is not a simple message. On the contrary. Denmark is the world leader in waste-to-energy conversion. The new state-of-the-art armour for a braining plant will reduce environmental impact to a minimum. The technology it uses is widely regarded as the best solution available. It still might not be enough. Sophisticated methods alone will not hold climate change. At the end of the day, only the absolute emissions output matters. Even with tremendous machines that clean up behind us, we can no longer ignore the limits of the planet we live on. Only our ability to adapt our lives to these limits will count.