ideas for a clean living system
Environment-friendly almost always means non-polluting & renewable. Here are some ideas.
1. solar still - I thought about this long , and then drew up a design, and _then_ looked at the net - it was there already - atleast, a working and different version of it.
still, here's a variation : solar stills work where there's water vapour in the air. how about a giant floating farm of stills, floating a few miles out from the coast - we can convert sea water to drinking water . or atleast irrigating water..
2. automobile mounted windmill - think of a computer fan mounted on the roof of your car/truck/van facing the wind - won't it generate some amount of electricity ?
3. heat harvesting - if we supply heat to a material in the latent heat area of the graph, can this energy be stored in that material ? harvested later ?
4. bio-city - already happening somewhere in China - a city where each house has it's own biogas plants, and bio-gas burning generators .. feeding surplus into the common grid. The spent biomass (a.k.a shit ) makes good organic fertillizer
5. the pee wee story : urine is an electrolite - theoretically - if you put an electrode into a beaker of urine, and an electrode into a beaker of pure water, a voltage difference should exist between these two electrodes. Urine makes good fertillizer too
6. giant solar farm - like in the movie Sahara. just too good.
7. we could do with a garbage super-sorter machine that will sort garbage into homogenous piles which can then be recycled accordingly ..
scenarios :
1. Cities in third world countries have huge populations with sub-standard sanitation facilities. A corporate could install and manage a giant loo-bank and attached biogas plant in a city to tap this huge potential.
2. industrial (non-trippy) hemp could be grown in all open ground spots in a city - hemp returns nutrients to the soil, and is a decent biofuel - another source of living added in the cities
3. don't get me started on a parking lot where the weight of cars pushes and winds a giant spring which will then power a rotating armature between ... you get the idea.
the idea is that you park on the top floor, and the car's on the ground floor when you come back. simple,eh
The trend in cities is towards super-structures - large malls - large working factories - offices that house a few thousand - this should tip the amount of daily bio-potential-mass generated into the viable/feasible/harvestible region ...
read this
1. solar still - I thought about this long , and then drew up a design, and _then_ looked at the net - it was there already - atleast, a working and different version of it.
still, here's a variation : solar stills work where there's water vapour in the air. how about a giant floating farm of stills, floating a few miles out from the coast - we can convert sea water to drinking water . or atleast irrigating water..
2. automobile mounted windmill - think of a computer fan mounted on the roof of your car/truck/van facing the wind - won't it generate some amount of electricity ?
3. heat harvesting - if we supply heat to a material in the latent heat area of the graph, can this energy be stored in that material ? harvested later ?
4. bio-city - already happening somewhere in China - a city where each house has it's own biogas plants, and bio-gas burning generators .. feeding surplus into the common grid. The spent biomass (a.k.a shit ) makes good organic fertillizer
5. the pee wee story : urine is an electrolite - theoretically - if you put an electrode into a beaker of urine, and an electrode into a beaker of pure water, a voltage difference should exist between these two electrodes. Urine makes good fertillizer too
6. giant solar farm - like in the movie Sahara. just too good.
7. we could do with a garbage super-sorter machine that will sort garbage into homogenous piles which can then be recycled accordingly ..
scenarios :
1. Cities in third world countries have huge populations with sub-standard sanitation facilities. A corporate could install and manage a giant loo-bank and attached biogas plant in a city to tap this huge potential.
2. industrial (non-trippy) hemp could be grown in all open ground spots in a city - hemp returns nutrients to the soil, and is a decent biofuel - another source of living added in the cities
3. don't get me started on a parking lot where the weight of cars pushes and winds a giant spring which will then power a rotating armature between ... you get the idea.
the idea is that you park on the top floor, and the car's on the ground floor when you come back. simple,eh
The trend in cities is towards super-structures - large malls - large working factories - offices that house a few thousand - this should tip the amount of daily bio-potential-mass generated into the viable/feasible/harvestible region ...
read this
posted by yesbob at Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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