In confidence to our connections and potential investors only as a topic for further discussion, land acquisition and funding!
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We need to “re-introduce” ‘Garden Cities’ these are important concepts, with enormous potential to;
- firstly, cope with immediate and vital volume housing demand.
- Secondly, it gives an opportunity to allow inhabitants to take control of their “decentralised” Energy costs -
- not to be subservient to inefficient centralised energy and
- variable wholesale energy costs.
- Thirdly, The ‘Net Zero’ agenda mis-casts bio-methane as a ‘fossil fuel’ - clearly it is not; it’s a vital feedback loop between organic wastes, farm wastes, sewage etc to allow energy generation via CHP (combined Heat and Power) and even transport fuels!
- Permaculture Farming locally for food security - so all the farming aspects will 'encircle' the Garden City!
Let nothing go to waste!
With local 'farming' [Permaculture Techniques - including Allotments and many 'Community Farms'] as an important addition to these New Garden Cities, we move away from the strategy of "Just-in-Time" (JIT) deliveries, and back to a locally adapted community.
Lastly, we suggest that such a development would be - not just ‘Net Zero’ but ‘Negative (below) Zero’!! Taking Carbon (dioxide) and the much more damaging methane, out of the 'equation' as it were.
Key Technologies
- Modular Building Technologies [Passive House Standards - as minimum]
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- Concrete Panels
- Timber Frames
- Earth Panels
- Passive Heating and Cooling Designs
- Basements as standard
- Rainwater Harvesting
- Hot Water Storage
- Batteries/Inverters
- Broadband Fibre Distribution
- Recording of energy usage/performance
- Pre-heated incoming air via 'Earth Pipes'
- Heat recovery from exhaust air/ventilation
- Bespoke Construction - Commercial, Schools, Hospital, Offices, Hot Desks
- Concrete - Low Carbon Mix
- Adapted systems as for Housing above
- 'Active' Landscaping [to reduce heating and cooling 'loads']
- Passive Heating and Cooling 'technologies' [minimises 'imported' energy]
- Landscaping to aid lower energy needs
- Avoid Windchill effect [Northern Exposure]
- Cooling Summer Effects
- Earthworks and planting to achieve these additional; passive effects
- Topography 'Design' to guide breezes and wind
- Trees and Micro Climate control
- Bio-Methane Production
- From Sewage and Organic Wastes [locally]
- Local Community Farming and Landscaping wastes
- Captured Coal Mine Methane [Remote into Gas Grid]
- Farming Bio Methane [Remote into Gas Grid]
- Initially [in our construction timeline] bio-methane from external UK suppliers
- From Sewage and Organic Wastes [locally]
- Combined Heat Power and Cooling - Using bio-methane as above
- Heat Distribution Network
- Each House or Property has Back-Up Hot Water Storage
- Large scale buffering Storage regionally
- Heat dump [swimming pool]
- Other large-scale [new and innovative] Heat Storage Technologies
- Cooling [chilled Water] Network
- Storage Buffering to commercial buildings
- Cooling for Basement Server Farm
- Heat recovery from immersion cooling system
- Power Generation - 6-10MW Electrical output
- used locally - in each home and in the commercial buildings
- exported to grid in times of "surplus"
- Stored into batteries and developing battery technologies
- Also storage into the homes and buildings battery back-ups as needed
- Heat Distribution Network
- Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
- Multiple 10kW installations in "Local Grid"
- Smaller scale 2-5kW in individual properties for EV charging
- Possibly larger scale installations
- Micro or Mini Hydo Power - if applicable
- Micro or Mini Hydo Power
- As appropriate if viable access to rivers or streams
- 15-70Kw multiple installations
- Solar Thermal Panels [Heat]
- On individual homes if viable to heat hot wash water in summer
- Solar PV [Electricity plus Heat]
- On individual homes if viable to provide additional electricity
- Foot-Paths, Cycle-ways
- Roads
- CNG cars, buses and commercial vehicles [from bio-digesters above]
- Trams and Local Rail
- CNG or Electric dependent on energy mix as above
Strategy to Engage
Partnerships formed with
- Local or County Authorities [for Planning]
- Structure Plan integration possibilities
- Brownfield possibilities
- Housing Associations [to manage rental side -]
- Manage rental aspects and waiting lists
- and potentially land bank deals
- Energy Company [to sell back to Grid]
- Or Embedded Energy deals - as Octopus Zero Energy {electricity} Supply
- Bio-Methane Producers and Suppliers [Initial power and transport fuel needs]
- CNG Services - CNG Service Station for Buses, Lorries and Cars
- Bio-methane via the Gas Grid Supplies
- Banking or Funding Partners
- For leverage for expansion
- based on asset values and past performance