Solar Power Goodness
Been doing research on Zero Energy, Solar power, natural heat pumps, and sustainable systems.
The function/ economy matrix is one that would deterine the adoptablility and feasibility of these systems integrated into a housing system.
ModuFab is a new project in efficient construction based on the ideaology of Dwell in prefab, sustainable moderistic designed housing. A massive movement right now.
That aside, my other pet project for passport visa extension service is starting to test next week. Hopefully, it will be tweaked fast and promoted enough.
My last project is to get industrial professional associations online for learning, interaction, jobs, and work order platform. The criterias for it has been formed, and programmers briefed, but, we are just starting to do the design and process. I foresee a huge amount of tweaking to be done for that. In fact so much so, that I may recruit and educate staff to take over the building supervision of this site so I can concentrate on the BD aspect of the business network.
After six month, I am fully out of APNCGROUP, but as always will be redirecting any BD to the guys in the office. Diesel was pretty damn good.
For now, these concept projects keep me busy, glued to my home office, and sticking to my post age 31 resolution of no commute, no suits, online, efficient, and investment & startup oriented business.
For some reason, TV is no longer an escape because it’s too close in my home, but I have seen some interesting movies. Revolver, and Happy Ending are thought provoking ones. Comments on these anyone?
Not to be a green nut, with a construction hat on. But……… check this out.
Shanghai first to go with sustainable city?
Some of the world’s most polluted cities are
in China, so it’s no surprise that clean energy sources are one of the country’s
research-and-development priorities.
The Solar Energy Institute at Shanghai
Jiaotong University, for instance, has built a one-story, 245-square-meter
prototype house that relies on multiple forms of renewable energy, supplemented
with energy from conventional sources. The house’s power system includes an
array of photovoltaic cells that generates 1,700 watts of electricity under peak
sunlight conditions, and three sets of 300-watt wind turbines. The system can
generate about 3,000 kilowatt-hours of electrical power each year, mainly for
lighting, household electrical appliances, and water pumps.
Outside the house stands a street lamp
with its own independent solar-power system. Twenty square meters of
solar-energy panels and 2,000-watt terrestrial heat pumps provide heat for both
the rooms of the house and the water supply. Twenty people a day can bathe in
summer, or 10 in winter, and still leave enough hot water for routine use. The
same heat pumps work in reverse during the summer to cool about one-quarter of
the house, an area of 60 square meters. Based on the average amount of annual
sunlight in Shanghai, the system could provide 10,700 kilowatt-hours of heat per
year. The goal is for the house to draw 70 percent of its needed energy from the
sun.
A solar-energy collecting tube invented
by a professor at Tsinghua University could make solar power more practical. The
glass vacuum heat collector has an aluminum nitride coating that absorbs solar
energy. Each of the coating’s multiple layers absorbs a different wavelength of
light, turning it into heat. The collector can capture 50 to 60 percent of
incoming solar energy, which can then be used to heat water or air. Tsinghua has
applied for more than 30 patents on the device, which is already offered
commercially in China, Switzerland, Japan, and Germany.
