Figure 11: Building heat exhaustion( 3DS Max render)
8.3 Anti-flood Floating Shelters( AFFS) and Hydro Power Renewable Energy( HPRE) As mentioned earlier, the huge amounts of water that the City of Manila is collecting daily / monthly, must not be neglected, but instead must be used wisely, as an important source of energy. This resource will work toward helping occupants instead of causing them negative impact on their living and health. Generating energy from water is a common technique used by many sectors and in different fields, usually in large scale projects where harnessing hydro energy is effective by reducing poverty in different countries, such as China, Japan, Pakistan and India. In addition to many other resources like coal, gas, and oil, among these energy powers, hydro power is the only renewable resource.
“ Energy access is only emphasized in a tiny minority of projects”( Kim and Urpelainen 2012:411), indicating that although government is working with different associations to adopt better sustainable guidance and implementation, nevertheless, the poor society is still receiving unsustainable solutions at high costs, which cannot be affordable or beneficial. In the case of Philippines, hydro power is generated by large private and governmental sectors, using big electrical generators to extract energy power from moving water. Nevertheless, these projects are not reaching the users directly( i. e. the city people) and have no straight benefit for people in need, instead, the private sector is selling these energy sources to the government at high prices, because they are still considered as new systems. This process is helping the country to grow slowly, but not effective enough to give guidance to most of the residences, and to help with reducing the big bills residents are paying currently.
AFFS will propose two types of new hydraulic design systems, used as a small scale implementation, generating energy to single buildings only. System A“ Turbine Wheel”, will generate energy in the presence of a high water flow during floods, and stores energy in battery generator during the absence of water. System B, named as“ VIVAC”( University of Michigan 2009) will generate energy from slow water currents, which can be used as a permanent energy source.
AFFS HPRE- Type A Considering the proposed design, two residential stories in addition to the ground buoyant system story will be built, and on the first story base, two turbines will be installed on each side of building blocks. Turbines will accelerate and generate energy in the presence of floodwater, directly connected to building battery storage, which will allow building residents to use their self-energy generation. Figure below( Fig. 12) will illustrate basic elevation of one of the building blocks.
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