Eco Smart City Planning

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Interest in the Oceans since a child in the 1980’s visited the Millport field studies council marine research centre where they studied the waters of the Gulf Stream,

and in the 1990’s scuba dived on the West Coast of Scotland as sad news of the bleaching of coral reefs globally broke, caused by Ocean warming and chemicals released into the Oceans, the Gulf Stream brings the warm waters from the Caribbean and Turtles flow to cooler waters and feed on jelly fish. And return with cooler waters in a continuous cycle.

Grande Riviere Beach May 2023 Leatherback Turtles Laying

Leather back Turtle beach lighting

Grande Riviere Trinidad is the most active Leather back Turtle beach in the World, the Beach uses Red LED light and Red LED light street lights to assist the Turtles and hatchlings from confusion from bright white artificial lighting. (June 2023) temperature-dependent sex determination, or TSD. Research shows that if a turtle's eggs incubate below 27.7° Celsius, the turtle hatchlings will be male. incubate above 31° Celsius however, the hatchlings will be female.

COP28

COP28 The EU, UK, US and others announced contributions totalling around $400m for poor countries reeling from the impacts of climate change.

The IDB Inter American Development Bank describe corruption as being the WMD weapon of mass destruction in the Caribbean region in the 10's of $Billions. link

The Oil industry lobbyists role in disinformation on Climate change revealed by BBC news link. I imagine it was easy for them to sow a seed of doubt in church communities etc.

oil producers took advantage of the chance to do something while conditions are good for them, “making hay while the sun shines”  while creating huge profits did little to prepare for the environmental damage.

100 years since the first car in India and now the global drive to remove petroleum because of its environmental impact. Drive for renewable energy to power vehicles,  Food packaging is replacing single use plastics by produce of petroleum industry with reusable environmentally friendly alternatives which are bio degradable.

Tobago is currently handling an oil spill on the beaches from a ship, potentially linked to drug trafficking and have a divesting effect on the environment and tourism.

Superyacht Ice docks at the Hyatt POS,  navigating at sea uses computers connected to Saterlites loss power once used the Stars need to be in the middle of the Atlantic now to see the stars clearly

Nasa Coastal Climate Central, Below Flood level by 2030 Click to enlarge. potential regional humanitarian crisis within 6 years

Computational Ocean modeling key tool in Oceanographic and climate research, and python code for validation carried out by the STFC Hartree centre. link

 

Newlyn Tidal Observatory, Calibrated and set Sea level height zero on Ordnance Survey maps. photo credit National geographic.

2023-2024 World’s first year long breach of key 1.5C warming limit according to the EU’s climate service.

Daylight analysis
Olympia Exhibition Hall natural Daylight render,

1 kilogram of carbon is equivalent to turning off one lightbulb for 24 hours, well designed artificial lighting can reduce energy consumption and light pollution.  today more people live the Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, than in whole of Europe and North America combined.

smaller projects lighting is often an after thought or no considered there are free software tools with over a million luminaries (light bulbs) to plan lighting internally and externally and reduce power and light pollution. I would like to see an end to needless use of power

Reduce Energy use and Light pollution

Reduce Energy vampires and Light pollution

Ask to think on smart city planning by the STFC Hartree Centre in 2019 submitted Proposal to the STFC, ground measurements of the position and physical illumination of Moonlight, for planning solar farms the latest generation of solar panels work at night, to monitor light pollution and reduce power consumption of Smart Cites.

 

2016 HDR image environmental mapping for lighting and 1 million luminaries (light bulb designs) reduce power consumption and light pollution

Saving energy by monitor Light pollution

I proposed to the STFC monitoring the moons brightness as modern solar panels are sensitive enough to generate electrify from moonlight, and street lighting could be adjusted to use less power when it is a bright full moon,

to reduce CO2 emissions from power stations, the Energy crisis that followed Russia invasion of Ukraine later lead to power rationing across the UK, and a rise in the cost of power for households highlighting the need for sensible use of electricity.

When not in use turn off electrics at the wall and save on energy vampires standby electronics lowering your electrify bill and the CO2 produced.

Note: Remembering to only recharge battery digital devices when needed, and at least on a monthly bases for the molecules to keep charge memory to extend life. And not waste energy or the fire risk of nightly charging.

Below are some of the facts:

Energy vampires

Video Games Consoles Energy Vampires appliances that continue to draw power from electrical outlets, even when turned off or idle. : Wall St Journal Diagram

Blackfriars, River Thames London, Light Pollution making the sky devoid of stars, countless empty offices with the lights left on throughout the night, and energy vampires across the Capital City of over 9 million people

Good moonlight is about 0.5 lux, safety cycling a country road at night is 20 lux

Urban set of three high power flood lights in residential garden light pollution intruding into Others living spaces requiring blackout curtains lux meter reading centre of pain. Party wall specialist

LED flood lights 5000k daylight colour temperatures

Lowed power on flood lights

Maritime Greenwich is One of four UNESCO World Heritage sites in London. The Royal Observatory Greenwich viewing the stars created the Prime Meridian line. The transit circle was built by the 7th Astronomer Royal, Sir George Biddell Airy, in 1850. The cross-hairs in the eyepiece of the Transit Circle precisely defined Longitude 0° for the World.


The Royal Observatory Greenwich, inspecting of conservation works to roof. 2006

The line in Greenwich represents the historic Prime Meridian of the World - Longitude 0º, Every place on Earth was measured in terms of its distance east or west from this line Longitude 0° for the world reference line for astronomical observations, and Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT. preserving the view of the night sky.

Greenwich mean time, international Time

Moon
Moon taken from London garden 15/02/19, dense smog caused the creation of the clean air act of 1956, harmful car fumes the Ultra Low Emission Zone ULEZ 2021

The health of the Rain Forrest was monitored using a plate camera, ground based photography taken through the Forrest Canapies.

Construction 38% of Global CO₂ emissions annually, with concrete production accounting for 8%. Towns and Cities in hotter climates around the globe built with concrete absorb heat from the Sun during the day releasing it during the night acting as storage heaters artificially raising temperatures, contributing two fold to global warming.

Small island states are most affected by climate change but only contribute 2% of global emotions.

Creating a CIE Moon sky dome link, As their is for the Sun recorded at key locations including major airports around the globe, used in Physically Based Render (PBR) lighting environments. CIE Sky daylight values.

Milky Way from Murry's Monument, Bio-sphere of Night Sky, Galloway Forrest Park, Scotland international Dark Sky Park, one of the first in the world to earn this designation.

There is a camp site close by to see the sky as all our ancestors once viewed.

Light pollution monitoring

Dr Christopher Kyba, a scientist from the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, told the BBC: "Our view of the stars is disappearing". 2023 conclusion of 12 years of amateur astronomers and citizen scientists going out at night to count the stars, almost 10% annual increase in sky brightness every year.

According to a 2022 study by the European Space Agency link the relatively low cost of LED lighting is also contributing to the problem. see what you'r missing in the night sky with the SkyPortal app android link iPhone link.

Digital Twins smart city reduce power consumption and Light pollution* enjoying viewing the Milky Way with the naked eye, Provided details of free Architectural lighting design software RELUX which contains a IES lighting data library of two million luminaires from manufactures used by architectural planners to prisoner reform at RSA.

World Heritage Site, Stonehenge is perhaps the world's most famous prehistoric monument. It was built in several stages: the first monument was an early henge monument, built about 5,000 years ago, and the unique stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period about 2500 BC.

encompassing horseshoe arrangement of the five central trilithons, the heel stone, and the embanked avenue, are aligned to the sunset of the winter solstice and the opposing sunrise of the summer solstice. The megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds Link

Stone Hendge (image credit Guardian)

In a discovery described by one of the scientists involved as “genuinely shocking”, new analysis has found that the largest “bluestone” at Stonehenge was dragged or floated to the site from the very north-east corner of Scotland – a distance of at least 466 miles (about 750km). Before maps or even paper and pencil navigated by the stars.

Desert mountain top, once desert navigation was by the stars across the empty quarter 

The UAE used a polymer developed by the Dutch to bond sand together when they constructed the World collection of sand Iselands but little thought went into the Sun on the water and changing to the flow of water and the waters became stagnant as the flows where blocked, I have concerns the city in Saudi Arabia the Wall will have a similar impact of the cooling breeze from the mountains (will look up the Arabic name to the mountain breeze. Now we are losing the stars to excess lighting and energy use.

Sustainability: Renewable energy

Solar panels generated the majority of electricity in our home, with feed in tariff paid to exported electricity to the national Grid (in England), using electricity smart meter managing kW kilowatt-hours used, using power hungry electrical appliances only on Sunny days.

Climate change

While designing the interior of two floors of Doha Tower Dubai, The owner of the engineering company which build the Burj Al Arab Dubai presented me with dishdasha infused with Arabian Oud, after we discussed the suspension system in the foundations which allow the building to gently move with winds of the Arabian Gulf.

Built in the shape of the sail from traditional pearl diving boats, filled with winds created from cycle of warm sea air cooling in the mountains, creating breeze over the land into the Arabian gulf, bring with them sand storms collecting participial and depositing them at distance.

Wadi's are the dry river beds running down from the maintains which fill when there are flash floods, rain fall has increased compared to the first British person to cross the desert around the UAE known as the empty quilter, rains didn't return for the next 10 years, before records where kept.

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