Comments on: Initial Ideas for a Post-Carbon Singapore

By: naisioxerloro

naisioxerloro — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:15:09 +0000

Hi.
Good design, who make it?

By: Home Improvement Journal

Home Improvement Journal — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:09:32 +0000

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By: hanja

hanja — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:05:56 +0000

Another thing is money. According to the latest usa economic figures, amount of loans usa banks total loan out = 6,600 billion. Amount of savings deposit in usa banks = 5,500 billion. Amount of cash usa banks have to pay 5,500 billion = 400 billion, this is enough to support usa deficit of 2.5 billion per day less than 180 days. And look at history of german inflation 100% per hour in 1922-1923, roman empire collapse, the conclusion is the only solution is to implement a nash equation solution and everyone buy gold as much as possible. Nash is the nobel winning economist featured in a beautiful mind. It seems that a 1% drop in housing bubble/even nyse is suppose to crash between now and march 2007 and will wipe out 400 billion cash immediate and banks go burst immediate.

By: hanja

hanja — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:59:49 +0000

My soln to energy crisis is to buy 100% mechanical/solar device, I even got complete set of water distill kit so I can produce my own water when necessary. I heard of peak oil in jan 2004, when I just came back from work in UAE. Even computer subsitite I use HP 49G programmable calculator that can do 4096^4096 in 45 minutes, 0.1 watt, 3 aaa batteries and hp basic. And of course work overseas means at night 9pm 39 degrees C, at least not as bad as baghdad where it is 60 degrees C at 3am. I got 50 days supply of food, 50 litre of dettol sterilization liquid, 1000 litre clean water in store, even got casio solar barometer/compass and 2 sets of mechanical (USa/Germany) barometer/thermometer/humidity . I do not need the solar panel as I do not need it for any use at all, even the PC I got substitute HP 49g calculator that is 4Mhz CPU(I saw hp50g got 75Mhz CPU but uses 0.5 watt and 4 aaa batteries, costs S$260 in funan, i got the 49g at S$50 ebay auctions in sg). IBMXT is 4.77mhz cpu 20 years ago and hp 49g/50g is still good enough to compare to the best pc 20 years ago. Even usa mindef computer for nuclear calculations in 1945 uses 160,000 watt and not as powerful as 49g cpu in terms of processing cpu speed so the 49g is already very good. Now I got almost everything I need I thinking of extras such as 3d vision glasses and stereo vision and colour blind test kit http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/mch/webcourse/vision/mod7b.cfm
http://www.richmondproducts.com/4427Stereo%20Tower.htm
as I got almost everything I need. I even got 5 inflatable kakay.

By: shooperman

shooperman — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:42:56 +0000

Hi Drintira,

Thank you for your comments on SingaporePeakOil. I’ve looked at your website and perhaps, one quick comment: to me, an ecovillage is a community effort and the case studies I’ve come across show that they are most successful when there are strong leaders heading these efforts. Typically, you’d see these efforts start with a core team of 3-5 individuals which subsequently grows to about 15-20 when they eventually proceed to buy the land. Your effort seems more ‘commercial’ by comparison and not personal enough for me – case in point, I don’t even get to see your picture on the website upfront, let alone the people whom I’m going to live collaboratively. I also didn’t think that a ‘resort’ positioning would do you much good – who are you targeting? Serious green-eco folks or vacationers?
Well, I hope you don’t mind me being blunt, I’m on a dead-serious sustainable-living mission now and certainly hope to see more similar-minded people around.

Cheers!
Shooperman

By: drintira

drintira — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:34:13 +0000

Hi! I agree with ideas of both of you. It is difficult to start an ECV in Singapore because you have to rely on the sun and the wind energy. You need a bungalow house or linked villas (2 stories tall) with solar roofs, etc. The investment is very high in Singapore, but not Thailand. HDB flats are impossible. Why don’t you come to live in my EVC in Krabi/Trang area (south Thailand) which is one hour flight to Singapore. E-commerce business people or computer professionals are the best group to to be pioneers in any EVC. Have a look at my website http://www.longstay.trangsea. com and tell me what you think. Singaporeans are our target markets. You can get your parents to join our EVC and use the place as their second holiday home so they can enjoy nature, while you young peole can enjoy snorkelin diving, jungle trekking nearby.
Business Times just interviewed us for the Executive Lifestyle section :Back-to-Nature Green Living, published on 28/07/06. See, if you can get a copy.
Please give me your feedback.
Cheers,
drintira (project director)
Back-to-Nature EcoVillage, Krabi-Trang

By: shooperman

shooperman — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:45:56 +0000

Hi yeksoon,

Good to hear from you again, though on a very different forum.

The ECV project I’m talking about pioneering is for Singapore. The key ideas for it right now are:

1. Sustainable community – I’m looking to achieve 90% self-sustainability in terms of food, electricity, gas and hopefully water (this depends on the land picked). The ECV will remain fully connected to the Internet though.

2. 12-15 households – since this is a first project, I believe most of the households will comprise of a software engineer breadwinner. This is to minimise the impact of losing work and income.

3. Educational focus – surplus housing will be alloted to allow the ECV to host visitors, students and other groups to stay in the village. This will also generate income for the village.

4. Forums – since the idea is that the pioneer group learn the ropes in living in an ECV, the group has to ensure that such knowledge is published and given to whoever is interested.

I hope this gives you a general idea where I’m going with the ECV. If you have any comments or ideas, please feel free to share them here.

Cheers!
Shoop

By: yeksoon

yeksoon — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:35:24 +0000

Intereting thought on point 2.

I would be interested to find out more about ‘ecovillage’ (ECV).

Are you referring to an ECV in Singapore or in other parts of the world?

What does living in ECV means or encompass?

Globalisation and mobility makes it possible for one to live in one place and work for a company in another (or conduct business in another).

I’m glad that you are still pushing for more pple to recognise the importance and impact of Peak Oil.