The second week in Singapore I visited an urban garden, the BMW iPerformance launch, spoke with the CEO of Singapore Electric Vehicles about his business and met Joe. Joe was the first one the import a Tesla Model S into the country and encountered huge problems. See it in the latest video.
On the edge of the desert in Dubai an unique property is arising. Diamond Developers’ The Sustainable City is a residential area and designed to be net zero-energy. Quite an accomplishment when you know Dubai’s energy consumption is one of the highest in the world and with temperatures around 50 degrees celsius in the summer definitely not tempting to turn of the airconditioning. Yet the developers found that the costs of building are lower as compared to traditional properties.
Powered by solar
40.000 megawatt hour solar energy is generated daily by 40.000 solar panels, fitted on the carparks and all the homes. The city was turend on less then a year ago and already during the first winter net-zero was realised.
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Holistic approach
Unique about the Sustainable City is that it not only looks at the traditional sustainable aspects like water, energy, waste and cooling (which all are handled well) but focusses on three key aspects: social, economic & environmental sustainability. The commercial mall which is home to various shops, a nursery, supermarket and cafe’s are all partly owned by the residents. With this business model they don’t need to pay for maintenance & service fees, costs which easily can go sky-high Dubai.
Electric Vehicles
Electric cars are also part of cities masterplan to later become carbon neutral. Residents are pushed to go electric by offering them a 40.000 Dirham (€10.000) incentive on the purchase of their first electric vehicle.
The property is car-free. Cars can be left behind (while charging on solar power) at the carpark from where electric buggy’s transport residents through the city.
Building a city like this doesn’t come without challenges. In below’s interview with Karim El-Jisr, Director of the Sustainable city he explains the hurdles they needed to take and goes more in depth in the various sustainable aspects.
Video: Without the car I arrived in Singapore. The most eastern point of the Asian mainland.
It has been way to long since I last posted a movie. My laptop was broken and couldnt do anything. Here is a long video update about what I have been doing the past month in Malaysia.
After recovery I departed to Kuala Lumpur. Not so easy as it was 400km and had to find good samaritans to help me get there. Watch the full video.
Sorry for poor audio quality! Microphone is broken!
In hight tempo I passed Thailand and arrived in Malaysia where Cameron was waiting for me and hosted me me for a week in Penang.
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Sad to leave Myanmar, the country that stole my heart and wish I had time to discover more. Luckily there were 2 days left and could visit the Golden Rock before entering Thailand.
Absolutely stunned I am by Myanmar so far. I can tell a lot but you better watch this movie.
After a long and tough journey I crossed to Myanmar and had my fist experiences in the special country.
Did the problems get solver or not? Do I reach Myanmar in time? Latest video has the answer.
