Week 6 - Compulsory Exercise: Energy Flows
FC-02x Livable Future Cities ( 2nd Run) - Compulsory Exercise 3
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2. The dominant fossil fuels are mainly used in: Transport and Industry. 3. It is your task to create a new policy in order to improve the environmental friendly and sustainable sources and consumption of energy of your country. How would you do that? Think of how you can improve the sources and the consumption of energy. The sources and consumption on energy could be significantly improved by introducing smart electricity management in all households. It consists of an intelligent network wherein messages can be sent from a smart phone to all domestic appliances to reduce their power draw from time to time or could be used to remotely switch off all the appliances (i.e. if they are left turned on) in the absence of any person in the household, thereby reducing unnecessary power consumption. The smart intelligent network can be well powered by solar electrical generation, as the place where I live receives abundance sunshine for more than 300 days in a year. The figure below shows the rough block diagram of a smart network. ![Block Diagram of a Smart Network][1] ![IEA Sankey Diagram - Final Consumption US 2013][2] ![IEA Sankey Diagram - Balance US 2013][3] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14613113422249827.jpg [2]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1461308638787722.png [3]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14613085651207627.png