Extensive Design Insertions (proposed in all zones):
• Desalination/WTE Towers
• Evacuation Centers
• Environmentally monitoring, wireless communication transmitting Light Poles
• School/Parks relationship
Extensive Operations (proposed in all zones):
• Decentralized infrastructure
• Greywater use
• Blackwater treatment in building + Hydrogen production
• Energy generation
• Air filtration (plantings)
• Water catchment
• Composting
• Recycling
• Density bonuses for small carbon, water, electrical footprints
• Capturing and filtering water – porous streets
Detail of microbial fuel cell (research prototype):
At the building scale, sewage can be treated in microbial fuel cells which clean the water and then produce hydrogen fuel as a bybroduct of their metabolism. Dry sanitary toilets drastically reduce the amount of clean water dedicated to moving sewage around the city and simply making the problem bigger.
Posted on June 29th, 2009 at 11:07 pm by Liz
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