Special Feature
“... positive eco-
living is a lifestyle
that benefits all, how
its impact can be
quantified and, more
importantly, how it
can be lived day-today. This is the vision
we want to share with
fellow Malaysians.”
Hybrid Eco Solar Water
Heater with PecoL® Hyrbid
Eco Hot Water Storage.
B&I: P E C O L i s m a r k e t e d a s
“Innovations in Green Energy.” What
are some of the innovations that feature
in your products?
EASB: Innovation is about change, from
the norm to something better, say, an
additional function, for example. Take
our hybrid tank, which is not an electrical
product but a storage tank, then, observe how
an air conditioner system works – it cools
the interior space and expels hot air within
into the ambient air or atmosphere as ‘waste’.
By installing two additional valves to the
air conditioner system, we can harness this
waste energy and transform it to functional
energy by diverting it to our hybrid tank,
where the piping acts as a heat exchanger
and transfers heat (from the air conditioner’s
outdoor compressor) to what’s in the tank
and generate hot water. This is our PECOL®
Air-con Water Heater, the world’s first waste
heat reclamation heater for heating up water
using heat generated by either a single or
several split air conditioners.
We have a few R&D projects in the
pipeline, e.g., the 4-in-1 refrigerant system
to be announced in four to five months, so
too premature to say more at this time. Other
than that, we are continually upgrading and
enhancing our line of products in every
aspect, i.e., the system itself, valves, switches,
materials and so on and re-designing our heat
pumps to achieve more than 75% savings in
electricity.
B&I: To promote a greener lifestyle
among Malaysians, PECOL launched
a nationwide “Positive Eco-Liv ing”
campaign at IGEM 2015. How is it faring?
EASB: The Campaign is aimed at drawing
Eco Mini
Heat Pump.
awareness to our existing lifestyle and its
adverse impact on the environment which
we are, in fact, borrowing from our future
generations. First, we need to stop the damage
being done, which right now is going very
badly, and then look at recovery. However,
the whole idea of stopping is so far away, it
has become an impossible dream so reducing
the damage is the only reality. Small though
it may be our contribution is to engage
individuals, communities and corporations
to join us and form an umbrella of energy
conservationists and savers.
Anchored by commercial institutions,
such as hotels, at the forefront, we plan
to organise a programme where 30-40
participating families, as teams, are invited
to a home environment where the lifestyle is
basic, i.e., without technology, as in the past.
Without compromising their conveniences,
our agenda is to show them how we can
adopt an eco-lifestyle, living in community
and consciously caring for the environment
and use of energy. This will be the blueprint,
an example that the community worldwide
can follow. The question we would pose after
the experience is ‘do you want to be part of
positive eco-living?’
This issue have been around for a long
time but have gone stagnant for a number
of reasons, e.g., no continuity, no effort
to qualify and quantify findings or effects,
lack of facilities and so on. Anyway, to our
surprise, a lot of corporations (e.g., Yayasan
Hijau, MyHijau) and individuals have placed
real interest in our campaign. Given a chance,
we want to take it global, the understanding
that lifestyles, and adaptability to change,
vary from country to country.
B&I: In your opinion, is enough being
done in Malaysia about green technology
by, say, the Government, the private
sector and the public?
EASB: If enough has been done, we won’t
be talking about this today. I would say a
lot of effort is yet to be put in by everyone
concerned, right from the individual to
corporate and the Government. Everyone is
involved in bringing this together, everyone
is talking about it but not enough is being
done. A platform has to be created to come
together and this is what we are doing. We
are too engrossed in our materialistic life so
much so that we are only focused on making
money to pay bills, bounded, as it were, by
economic slavery.
While the Government has launched
initiatives and organised activities to promote
environmental care, eco-living and all that,
these were not scaled up or sustained over
time. The thing is, in tackling these issues
in the right way where everyone accepts it,
we should address them ‘real life’, showing
them how positive eco-living is a lifestyle that
benefits all, how its impact can be quantified
and, more importantly, how it can be lived
day-to-day. This is the vision we want to share
with fellow Malaysians. ■
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