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1: Problems
Clean Energy
Clean energy in city center
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Solve Energy shortages during winter
Reduce energy waste streams
Food problem
Trash
clean and green buildings
traffic jam
In-Home Recycling
Reduce food waste
Produce food at home
Waste free shopping
Biodegradable plastics
Food distribution
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Reduce Energy waste streams
Localy produced energy
Collect used warm water (from cooking, showering...) and reuse for heating home
Store energy
Extract heat from composting proces (leaves that fall in autumn)
Thermal battery
Power Plant in a gym
Water flow in canals/rivers
Heat stuck at the ceiling => add air circulation to redistribute
energy gets lost when transporting over long distances
Greenhouse around house/ neigbourhoud
Use mirrors to direct sunlight into house
Wind farm on rooftop
Rain that goes down the gutter => connect to generator
Kinetic tiles on busy places
Thorium reactor
Electric Home battery (tesla power wall)
Solar water heating (instead of electric solar panels)
wind turbine high in the sky (balloon or kite)
Geothermal energy
Electro-kinetic road ramp
Friction heat from cars
Better isolation in old houses
Pellet stoves
More trees and plants to compensate co2 emmisions by power plants
Solar panels on roads
collect energy from letting down drawbridge
Use cold air from outside to cool food instead of fridge
warehouses can add circulation from cold outside air trough their fridges
Underfloor heating
let more sun into your house
Less need for additional lighting
Greenhouse effect
Elevator that goes down => collect energy
Use heat from computers/datacenters
Heat from cables
Kitchen vents blow warm air outside => use that heat
Old houses with central stairway/ hall
Better indoor isolution to prevent heat going there and to make it stay in the living places and rooms
Hydrogen battery
Pull up a big weight to the top of high buildings and generate energy from letting it down again
Limescale in pipes makes lots of heat going lost
Floor Heating is a lot more efficient than standard central heating
make it easy to be adopted in old houses
Tiles with integrated floorheating
Make energy production machines visually appealing
Light that follows the user in big buildings so not al the lights are on all the time
More green in the city for biomass production
Idle cars in traffic jams are a big waste of fuel
Heat loss in chimney
TUC
WHAT?
WHO?
WHERE?
WHY?
Risk of power shortage
Too much electricity consumation
Too much people
Inefficient planning of energy usage
Big need for heat resources during winter
Residents of a city
Businesses
Warehouses
Big electricity producers
Governing instances
City centers
Outside isolation with green walls
Countryside
People are to dependent to others for their resources
pump water from a low lake to a high lake, when electricity is needed, you let it flow back down trough a generator
Use 'De leie' for transportation
Monorail above the streets
Zepplin's
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Alarm when you leave the door open too long
wind farm on top of bus stop
Gathering information
Litterature
Publieksenquete over klimaat
Generate electricity from playgrounds (swings, sea-saws, go-rounds,...)
Extract Biogas
Questionaire
Questions to ask
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Green roofs
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Smart domotica to manage electricity usage at home
How bigger the house, how bigger the energy consumption => Motivate people to live smaller.
Cars in traffic jams produce a lot of heat that goes straight into the air
Urban (Vertical) Farming to diminish transportation of food
Saltwater battery
Automate shutters to close at night to prevent heat loss
Reuse waste heat from businesses for house heating
Measurement Matrix
More trees and plants to compensate co2 emmisions by power plants ❌
Greenhouse around house/ neigbourhoud
Electric Home battery (tesla power wall)
Hydrogen battery
Thermal battery
Saltwater battery
Collect used warm water (from cooking, showering...) and reuse for heating home
Use cold air from outside to cool food instead of fridge (houses)
Heat loss in chimney
Kitchen vents blow warm air outside => use that heat
Reuse waste heat from businesses for house heating
More green in the city for biomass production
Wind farm on rooftops
Power plant in a gym
Geothermal energy ❌
Wind turbine in the sky
Biogas
Biomeiler
Make energy production machines visually appealing ❌
Use cold air from outside to cool food instead of fridge (warehouses, businesses)
Is not a solution but a criteria that can be integrated in the other solustions
equivalent to 'more green in the city for biomass production'
Greenhouse around house/ neigbourhoud
Thermal battery
Electric Home battery (tesla power wall)
Hydrogen battery
Saltwater battery
Use cold air from outside to cool food instead of fridge (houses)
Use cold air from outside to cool food instead of fridge (warehouses, businesses)
Collect used warm water (from cooking, showering...) and reuse for heating home
Reuse waste heat from businesses for house heating
Kitchen vents blow warm air outside => use that heat
Heat loss in chimney
More green in the city for biomass production
Wind farm on rooftops
Biogas
Biomeiler
Power plant in a gym
Wind turbine in the sky
Equivalent to geothermal battery
Quick converging with some important criteria with nominal values
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