Friday, April 30, 2010

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Sustainability - Part 1: Architecture Solar

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solar skylights are tubes inside which sunlight is transmitted, its performance is similar to fiber optics, with the difference that instead of light transmitted through a solid is transmitted through the air through a tube covered by a reflective material such as aluminum mirror, you can make some curves in the tratectoria (not too sharp) and carry few meters from the ceiling. Provide a good level of lighting in dark rooms or without windows, avoiding other lighting waste.


can be achieved in the market, but you can also make them with a transparent hemisphere, PVC pipes and aluminum (aluminum can be used for cooking), but reflective aluminum mirror or silver paint or bright white.

2 LED Lighting
The LED's are light emitting diodes, technology can take advantage of the light spectrum without making much temperature (unlike conventional lamps .) Prices are per unit (light fittings come prepared with LEDs) and average price ranges between 35 and 350 pesos depending on the brand, features and power. LEDs are more optimal technology in energy efficiency, with a single transformer can feed almost all lamps (called a driver, the only difference with a conventional transformer is that it transforms a continuous, ie has a diode bridge).

One of the things to keep in mind that the average life of the LEDs are approximately 80,000 to 100,000 hours compared to 2,000 to 12,000 hours of conventional lamps and low consumption.

3 Use of water (Responsible Care)
This items refers to items that can regulate the flow, such as time-taps, oxygen (30% reduced consumption), dual-flush valves for toilets, and similar applications.
4 Recovery of rainwater
diverting downspouts, we collect the rainwater tank with a previous and simple filtering. Depends on the volume of water generated can be used for toilet flushing and washing machine use, but the simplest application, guaranteed is to use that water for irrigation, Valdas, etc.


5 Waste Separation Waste separation is something you have to do if or if a sustainable project that seeks to reduce environmental impact. Cans, glass, paper, cardboard, metals, organic waste, plastics, unclassified (electronic scrap can be very complex or items and materials).

are advised to put a trash container type battery cells: alkaline, standard, watch batteries. To motivate and educate signs people know there is a place where you can pull the batteries.





6 Creating
compost Compost is useful that we will have plants or a garden or crop sector, then we can make the payment of the land that remains rich in nutrients, minerals, phosphorus, iron, potash, nitrogen and calcium. Its implementation does not require much time, a process that can last 90 days, where we waste bins or buckets organic layer of soil and straw or dry leaves, so, layer by layer.






7 sensors to save energy

These sensors allow us to save the light in those sectors that for some reason, but there are people burning inside. It is advisable in corridors, halls, stairs, bathrooms (sector mirror).




8 automation system for energy saving
Home automation systems allow us to regulate the consumption, view and act intelligently on the basis of our customs and habits, such as using the washing machine at night, looking at the light level sensors and then dimming to save power and long life lamps. Like many applications, we can see them on a computer and generate statistics, see how we can be saving energy when we change our ways. Examples: sensors measure light levels and external contributions and thus dimerize environments to achieve optimal lighting, reducing the consumption of lamps so that there is no excess light and take advantage of sunlight, while it is, after the sun goes down, the level of the lamps start to rise.
there are many applications in lighting, thermo-mechanical (air conditioning) system and use of passive solar architecture, wind, air currents, etc..

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