Sunday 25 May 2008

Cool City


There are some problems found since the start of the industrial revolution such as raises population, increasing energy consumption and increase the amount of carbon dioxide. Really it’s difficult to solve the problems specially if there is on choice, traveling to another earth. Last 30 years in Japan GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has gone up 70% while energy efficiency has increased 37% and oil consumption has 8 %. The 90% of carbon dioxide emitted into the air come from building and transportation. Cool city is a model city. The city will be built by a Japanese company (SDCJ). There are three types of transportation will be used in the cool city: Monorail station, Light rail transit and water transportation. Also It has some various like business, residence and culture. They used water, trees and roof membrane to reduce the heat. There are two types of buildings which expected CO2 reductions like commercial building 50 % and residence building 30 %. The overall percentage of reduction of CO2 emissions claimed in the video is 60 %.

1 comment:

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