Do You Know Some Alternative Electricity/green Energy Sources?
i am doing a thesis and looking for green and renewable energy methods that can be installed in the design of my building/development.
it is a residential(condo) with commercial(community mall) development in a tropical climate.
the condo’s target market are middle-income families so the cheaper the cost of the green/renewable energy and its installation into the building, the better
the renewable power need not cover the whole electricity consumption, just a significant percentage to cut drastically on electricity bills
if you also have some sites that are about cheaper/clean/renewable/sustainable energy, or buildings that used cheap renewable electricity, let me know
thanks!! =)
I’m in a bit of a hurry right now, so I’ll just leave a couple of links, since noone else answered that part of your question yet.
Geothermal, particularly take a look at heat pumps.
If the local ground temperature is cool enough, then you can use that as a place to dump heat from the home, drastically cutting down on air conditioning costs, although a system is expensive to install.
In a tropical climate, take a serious look at solar PV. With government subsidies it might be worth it, although it’s likely to be too expensive for a while.
Microhydro is probably a pretty sensible way to doing it if you have a reliable river or stream nearby.
Building microwind turbines is iffy. Generally speaking their not very good unless you’ve got an excellent location.
The cheapest form of renewable area in most places is wind power. If you can’t find anything technically feasible to install on site, perhaps investment in a larger turbine just off site or part-ownership of a nearby wind farm would work?
You should look into Geo-Thermal heating for large buildings. Solar panels are most likely going to be far to expensive and will have a low pay back rate. Wind turbines are only on for an average of 24% so that is out.
Anything hydrogen based would be ideal as water is near perfect and doesn’t pollute.