Missing piece of energy puzzle!

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Declaring a city or region as power surplus without meeting the actual thermal comfort needs of inhabitants may not be a correct estimate especially if the city or territory is experiencing distinct cycle of seasonal variations from severe cold to extreme heat and specially if per capita income in the region is low and especially if any country spans over multiple temperature zones from tropical to temperate. May be part of country's subregion needs ventilated homes and other part needs completely insulated homes, or may be the case that for part of the season residential homes require natural ventilation while in summer and winter central heating or cooling is required with completely insulated homes.

Just because through decades 24X7 residential thermal comfort was never considered a necessity in specific region, just because residents can't afford the luxury of centralised heating/ cooling infrastructure system of their home and associated energy bills, just because part of population do not have access to hot water for bath and kitchen in chilling winter and many not having access to cold drinking water in summer, just because majority of architects are not used to or trained for designing completely insulated residential housing or individual homes as required for central heating/ cooling it may be unfair to assume that they deserve to continue to live like this, shivering and sweating in uncomfort of their home.

It's logical point to ponder, that if a person requires & feels comfortable year-round in the centrally air-conditioned mall, office, public transport and private car while in same city in same season rather throughout the year, why he or she should not deserve similar thermal comfort in their home as well, in same city, in same season, rather throughout the year. Why some countries and cities falling in same temperature zone across the world have access to thermal comfort of central heating and cooling and continuous hot water tap but majority of population in other cities in same temperature zone are destined to live in thermal discomfort in the name of architectural tradition and sometimes inconsiderate and outdated bylaws. Certainly one or more or all of the above resons discussed above are accountable.

Urban planners, architects, environmentalists, economist & administrators need to take cognizance of this fact & situation for future habitation planning, design & during policy revisions.

Random exemplary questions are there like, who is accountable & what is the solution for mounting energy losses in cities & regions where window AC or split AC is being widely used for residential units, where ~100% residences having ~0% consideration for thermal insulation requirements. Is it that energy demand estimation and projection for cities and countries and world is rather wrong if we factor in justified need of thermal comfort of all citizens.

Author: Anoop Jha

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#climatechange #urbanplanning #architecture

How to pinpoint prospective business!

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[ #consultancy #city #state #projects ]

If an individual or organization cares to habitually screen and analyse following data in public domain they can easily foresee prospective projects which are yet to surface, they can either float suo moto proposal or in other case they are already half way through with proposal before project surfaces.

List of Data to be screened for prospective business in urban domain-

-Press release of ULBs, state, center and various departments

-Articles of local, regional and national newspapers (including local language and multilingual) and online news

-State vision plans and perspective plans

-Blogs and discussion forums, 

-Public speech and interview transcripts of PM, CM, Ministers, MLAs, Mayors, and Municipal Commissioners, councillors 

-Newsletters

-District Development Plans

-Vision document extracts related to phase 2, 3, n

-Strength and gaps of any state and city (state dashboard, city observatory) 

-Proposed basket of PPP projects under various fesibility reports

-Research papers of academicians and field experts

-Autopsy of failed project proposals and tenders which didn't kick off

-MoUs and EOIs of Business summits 

-Reports of chamber of commerce, thinktanks, financial and banking institution,

-Expansion plans of large national level companies and MNCs

-Manifesto etc.

BD efforts are to be properly backed by R&D and forecast. 

Key words:
#business #businessdevelopment #tender #tendering #bid #bidding #bidprocessmanagement #company #organisation #sales 

Prediction model for future events

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When one says next step can easily be predicted in a series of events one easy empirical demonstration is that you can safely predict with 99% accuracy that a man will look for drinking water after walking a mile in blazing sun, further next step can be predicted based on context whether he will walk to fridge or dig a well for water. A temporal behavioral data can further add layers of accuracy. Similarly if you add the dimension of pervasive surveillance and targeted machine learling chances are that someone else knows better than an individual about  what exactly he is going to do, behave and react across a day or month. And wait if you will add another dimention of genome and astrology then possily you can even predict about their lifetime. So goes the old saying your life is an open book, it actually is and its not on your shear will, but on other's observation and mercy.

Thoughts on Complete Street Design

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A lush green street, a canopy street, aesthetic avenue, rich boulevard and a street equipped to handle and harvest storm water in every part of city has been a distant dream here. Is it too difficult a dream to achieve. There are few reasons for same. A preconceived RoW template mindset which leaves very little earth or scope within RoW for landscape Architects to play with, transport modeling software only being limited to carriageway design and not the complete RoW, lack of synergy between approach of transport planning, storm water management, landscape architecture and street lighting leading to complete absence of collective vision. It cannot be solved professionally as by that time each one is rigid and wise enough to exclude most of above tasks from their respective scope of work.  Unless a transport planner will care for trees or a landscape architect will care to understand what goes into engineering of road or a water expert will have affinity and knowledge of ecology until then we won't get to experience a complete street. It has to start with education not from the desk of multi disciplinary team sitting in office. Above mentioned subjects to be made compulsory in each others curriculum for few semesters not just to teach them the technicalities but to help them sensitize about each others domain, to gain/give respect to each other and garner natural affinity about others subject so that end user could experience a complete street.

With right amount of data and intention future can be staged and predicted with lot of accuracy.

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Staging a physical barrier for instance which trigger the channelised behavior and action of subject which is somewhat  predictable in a sense considering 50:50 scenario, i.e. what will certainly not happen(85% to 99% accuracy) Vs what may happen (35% to 90% accuracy), which means that you can predict near term future with say 70% accuracy and longer term future with say 55% accuracy, its not simply unpredictable like probabilistic theory nor just a play of permutations combinations, but as introduced earlier its staged with more control over future scenario. You do not need a rat to experiment with this, human is perfect subject for this experiment with zero harmful side effects. Or rather take control of your own future.

One also feels that based on the analysis of individual's distributed long term and live information, routine analysis, habit tracking and based on behavioral analysis any individual's actual real time micro environment can be recreated at a remote location with 80+ % accuracy.

#future #AI #theory #science #technology #data #futuretech #health #psychology #information #world

Technology to increasingly make world a level play field.

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Few years ago the best pizza delivery guys were those who had addresses on their fingertips, likewise the best drivers were those who had every city street memorised. Come today and that difference in skillset of various pizza delivery guy and different drivers is gone. Everyone of them is more or less equally empowered and informed about neighborhood street and addresses thanks to map based realtime tracking and navigation. No one considered how technology is going to change the rules of game increasingly making this world a level play field for all one segment at a time.

There can't be scarcity of fund for social welfare ever as there are unexplored potential means!

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It might seem unethical, disruptive and amusing at the same time but if ten odd seconds of non-invasive  commercial slideshow break or selling commercial right of part of slide, during acedemic presentations across universities and colleges could generate fund for education or healthcare in remote corners of world its an idea worth considering, academic community with students as potential customer base shall cooperate wholeheartedly one feels.