300906 Eco House Main Committee Meeting updates
By Wilson Ang a.k.a ShamU on Monday, October 02, 2006 at 11:06 PM
Thanks to our dear Wei Zhang who did up the minutes.After meeting on 30th September, some ideas of the system were being discussed. We did some modification to the previously proposed building.
The building will be 12 m long and 3 m wide. The minimum height of the structure will be around 2.4 m.
Some key elements that will be feature in the eco- house:
• Green roofing
• Rainwater harvesting
• PV cell for solar power
• Algae cultivation for bio fuel
• Composter
• Recycling area
• A show area that will mimic a HDB kitchen
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Proposed design of the house:
1. PV cells module
2. Green Roof
3. Rainwater filter
4. First sedimentation tank (make out of water dispenser bottle)
5. Water tank (water dispenser bottle)
6. Water wheel
7. Tank for algae growth
8. Overflow unit for algae tank
9. Fermenter using yeast
10. Composter
The following are the breakdown of the above stated-
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Green Roof:
To be advice by Jia Jia’s friendly neighbour
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Rain water filter:
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Sediment tank and Water tank:
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Water wheel:
To be discuss
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Tank for algae growth:
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Over flow unit:
Filter for the over flow unit – can collect algae filtrate
picture from solarhaven.org
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