Cool cities
10 ways to make a cleaner city.
1. Clean buses, busses that run on natural gas
2. Hybrid cars, cars that are cleaner and save $1,900 over 5 years
3. Energy efficient buildings, buildings that are made to better keep heat, cool and light, to save on energy etc
4. Energy efficient street lights save $32,000 per year
5. Combined heat and power units, have lower energy costs and less pollution
6. Use solar and wind power
7. Renewable energy standards
8. Using city utility contracts
9. Retrofit energy efficient technology to old buildings
10. Make new buildings more energy efficient
Are these realistic?
The ideas seen on the video are very realistic for the gulf, they are well planned and since there is so much development of new buildings in the UAE it would be easy to create the cool/green buildings that will save money and help the environment.
3 ideas than can work
1. Recycled cool air
2. Hybrid cars and public transport
3. Mechanical roof that will be closed in the hot weather and opened in the cool months
3 ideas that are not appropriate
1. Making things close to each other so people can walk will not be an option in the summer months it will still be to hot to walk
2. Open areas with mist machines only make the area 6 degrees cooler which in the summer is still not enough to allow people to walk and stand comfortable in open areas
3. Too much mist and water would be needed just to make a small change in the temperature
