Sunday, May 25, 1997

Cool City


Cool City
Since the star of the industrial revolution, there have been some of the problems associated with economic development such as increasing population this will increasing in energy consumption. We need another earth to solve this problem. We have to decrease half of the amount of carbon dioxide emitted in to the air to live within the capacity of a single earth. In Japan during the last 30 years GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has gone up 100 percent while energy efficiency has increased 37 percent and oil consumption has decreased 8 percent. 90 percent of carbon dioxide emitted into the air comes from building and transportation. Cool city, its model city. SDCJ which is building it, I from Japan. There are three types of transportations that will be used in Cool city which are hybrid, water taxi. Business, residential and culture is the various zone in the city. There are some techniques that will reduce heat such as water, trees and roof membrane. It is expected that resident building would reduce CO2 by 30 percent and the other buildings by 50 percent. The overall percentage of reduction of CO2 emissions claimed in the video was 60 percent.