・Actar: Architecture: Self-Sufficient City : Envisioning the habitat of the future
" Self-Sufficient City
Envisioning the habitat of the future
Edited by:Vicente Guallart , Lucas Capelli
Cover:Soft
Illustrations:Color
Size:12 x 16 cm.
Page Number:416
Published by:ACTAR , Institut d'Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya
Price:International 25.00 Euro
Spain/Portugal 22.00 Euro
USA 34.95 $ "
Language / ISBN:English [978-84-92861-33-0] Available "
" Read our report "Gaining Ground
Wetlands, Hurricanes and the Economy:
The Value of Restoring the Mississippi River Delta "(pdf)
The Mississippi River Delta ecosystems provide at least $12 ? 47 billion in benefits to people every year. If this natural capital were treated like an economic asset, the present value of the Mississippi Delta would be between $330 billion and $1.3 trillion. These are the findings of our report “Gaining Ground” just released by Earth Economics. "
エネルギー・気候変動省 Department of Energy and Climate Change 長官のグレゴリーバーカー Gregory Barkerさんが、ステートメントで使った単語、燃料困窮者 Fuel poverty という言葉は、今後G8やG20の国の国民でさえ直面することが懸念される問題です。
「このプログラムは、我々が社会で最も弱い人々が燃料代を払うのを手伝う方法として大きな前進となるでしょう。燃料困窮者の問題は、大きな問題です。連立政権は、このプログラが最も困っている人々を助ける方法として、より効果的なものとなることを約束します。」-----エネルギー・気候変動省 Department of Energy and Climate Change 長官のグレゴリーバーカー Gregory Barker（下のリリースより）
" “This scheme is a huge step forward in the way we help the most vulnerable people in society pay their fuel bills in the future. Fuel poverty remains a massive concern and the coalition government is committed to being far more effective in the way it helps those most in need.”
(Energy and Climate Change Minister, Gregory Barker
Around 250,000 pensioners will start getting ￡80 off their next electricity bill from this month, thanks to a deal by the Government and the leading energy suppliers announced earlier this year.
Up to ￡20 million will be paid out by the largest energy companies in a one-off rebate to some of the pensioners who need the most help with their fuel costs.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)[External link] is writing to all those who are eligible to let them know either that their rebate will be paid automatically, or asking people to call our Helpline and confirm their entitlement.
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Those eligible are households where at least one person is aged 70 or over, receiving the guaranteed element of Pension Credit but not the savings credit element, are responsible for the electricity account where they live and don’t already benefit from a discounted tariff.
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" Gordon Murray Design announce the Specification and Performance Targets for the T.27 City Car, a pure electric drive vehicle designed to fully optimise packaging, weight and performance. The announcement marks an exciting leap forward in efficiency for electric vehicles and working closely with their powertrain partner, Zytek Automotive, a brand new, innovative, lightweight and fully integrated electric motor, control system and battery will be designed to ensure that maximum efficiency is achieved.
Projected emissions, using a UK energy mix, are 48g/km CO2 for the combined cycle and 28g/km CO2 for the urban cycle alone, with zero emissions at the point of use. Full lifecycle CO2 damage will be 42% less than the average UK car.
Performance Targets
Top Speed: 105kph
0-100kph: Less than 15 seconds
Range: 80 - 100 miles
The T.27 vehicle concept closely follows the layout and geometry of Gordon Murray Design’s innovative T.25 city car, an MPV with 6 possible internal layouts.
The efficiency in cost, weight and performance comes in part from the ‘clean sheet of paper’ approach, part from the full integration of the powertrain and also from the low energy manufacturing system developed by Gordon Murray Design called iStreamR.
iStreamR massively reduces the capital investment required to produce the vehicle and also the energy required for manufacture plus the flexibility of the iStreamR process would also allow the petrol powered T.25 and the T.27 to be manufactured at the same plant.
The 16 month programme started in November 2009 with a running prototype scheduled for completion in April 2011 and is supported with a 50% investment from the Technology Strategy Board. The next phase in the programme will include a push to secure partners and funding for UK manufacture. A UK partner or consortium to produce the city cars in the UK would keep the technology at home and could create 6,000 jobs.
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ご参考
日本ＥＶクラブではミラＥＶで、
2009年11月17日に東京日本橋から大阪日本橋までの555.6kmを走行し、
電気自動車による途中無充電航続距離の世界新記録を達成しました。
この記録は、公道を走行したものです。
ギネスでは“The longest journey by electric vehicle”として認定されました。
今回のチャレンジは、ギネスに“The great distance by electric vehicle”として申請する予定です。
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世界の教育現場にパソコンと通信環境を提供する運動を商業ペースで確立することを目指すOne Laptop per Childは、現在のラップトップ形パソコンでの展開に新たに、Marvell社と共同でタブレット形のパソコンのプロトタイプの開発を今年中に行い、2011年のCESにもその成果を発表したいとのことです。
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How about this telling quote from Negroponte, with emphasis added:
"At CES [2011] we will show a tablet that can be and will be used for children in the developed world that will allow us to start testing many of the things that combine, if you will, a laptop, an iPad, and a Kindle, and sort of take those and put them into one device."
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OLPC's Negroponte says XO-3 prototype tablet coming in 2010
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" Marvell and OLPC Empower Education Industry to Revolutionize the Classroom Experience through Advanced, Affordably-Priced
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The new family of XO tablets will incorporate elements and new capabilities based on feedback from the nearly 2 million children and families around the world who use the current XO laptop. The XO tablet, for example, will require approximately one watt of power to operate (compared to about 5 watts necessary for the current XO laptop). The XO tablet will also feature a multi-lingual soft keyboard with touch feedback, enabling it to serve millions more children who speak virtually any language anywhere in the world.
The device is also decidedly "constructionist" in nature. By design, it combines hardware and software to deliver a platform that will enable educators, students and families around the world to create their own content, and learn to read, write, and create their own education programs and share all of these experiences via a mesh network model. The device will also feature an application to directly access more than 2 million free books available across the Internet.
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