Green technologies. 1. The Parties shall cooperate in the green technology sector with a view to:
Green technologies. The problem of depleting fossil fuels already seams close. We considered three possible response to this sort of issues. The first is use all means available to reduce consumption of fossil fuel energy. The second is to develop alternative and “clean” technologies such as solar or wind energy or other renewable source that can replace fossil fuel. The third issue is to optimize the managing of power resource. These issues regards not only aging population, but whole world community, in fact the researches of new and alternative sources of energy could improve the QoL of worldwide population. The new power source could be low-cost, rennovable, safe and “clean”. Furthermore new agents could be designed to combine actuation and movement with recharge of supply. For instance a mobile robot with solar panel when needs battery recharge, could move autonomously in order to orient its panels to reach the power source, accumulate energy and recharge battery. Furthermore these new agents could have a biomimetic power supply.
Green technologies. Tools for optimal house and city power management Power management is definite in EUROP – Technology roadmap (EUROP SRA, 2009) as: “Set of technology generating, storing, providing and conditioning power to the system and to ensure that the system makes the most efficient use of the power available to it at any given time while performing its task and minimizing emission” A method to decrease power consuming and dangerous emission is to optimal management of house and city power resources. As explained before, smart city and smart environment could provide an efficient sensing and action system as a solution to this issue. For instance a smart thermostat which learn from human habits, a smart electric system which could turn off the light when no one is in the room, motorized window and so on are all possible improvement to develop and explore. Furthermore innovative wireless power supply could be designed and develop, in order to make the recharge procedure more user friendly, even for aging people. In this way the system could autonomously go closed to charge point and start the procedure. Moreover smart tools to help aging people to correctly separate garbage through a real-time analysis should also represent an open challenge to develop in the next few years. Improve the use of new clean energy and sustainable development technologies During last few years, electric cars have reached the market and have begun to achieve a great diffusion. It is just the beginning, if the use of fossil fuel energy has to be decreased, on the other side new clean and sustainable technologies has to be developed in order to substitute efficiently traditional power source. For instance autonomous hydrogen car should be developed, or an agent with a solar supply able to autonomously follow the sun when it has to recharge battery. Fit within this topic alternative and non electrical power supply the following examples: Bio-digestion (Sludge Cells), Compressed Air, Hydraulic (Digital hydraulics, water and other fluids), combustion (Diesel, Automotive Industry) Solar energy and other renewable source (EUROP SRA, 2009). Furthermore also biomimetics Power and other Intelligent system that exploits Chemical Reaction to recharge battery should be taken into account. At National Centre for Biotechnology Education (National Centre for Biotechnology Education, 2012), University of Reading, a microbial fuel Cell as been developed. This results have been founded on original research by...
Green technologies. 16.1 Peak water demand should be accommodated with supplementary storage and recycling (e.g. rainwater tanks, grey water recycling) of water so that municipal water only be used to satisfy the base demand;
