The E3i (Energy, Economics, and Environment) Village Concept by Kamaruddin Abdullah
Introduction
There is an ever increasing evidence and trend of global warming due to uncontrolled and in efficient combustion of fossil fuels
Traffic jam in big cities is one of the example of inefficiency
As more and more people move to the big cities, rural areas are left undeveloped and food production work will be depending on older people, while in big cities more slum areas will be created making the city becoming unconfortable place for living.
E3i village Concept (Kamaruddin,2007)
Provides proper dwelling and in situ employment for its inhabitant (limited number of population allowed)
Effective and productive uses of locally available renewable energy sources to support demand from house holds, SMEs and transportation sectors
Provides basic infrastsucture for sustainable development
Accelerate MDG activities
Ultimately creates equality and justice in national development
Eco-village Concept
by Robert Gilman
Living Together (IC#29) Copyright (c)1991, 1996 by Context Institute
human scale (to know and be known in the human community)
Limited number of population <>
Full-featured settlement (-residence, food provision, manufacture, leisure, social life, and commerce)
in which human activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world (ideal of equality between humans and other forms of life)
in a way that is supportive of healthy human development and can be successfully continued into the indefinite future.
(involving a balanced and integrated development of all aspects of human life-physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual)
Based on 1991 data of the DGEEU and the BPS
(C t l B f St ti ti ) th Central Bureau of Statistics) the average rural
house hold of
head /d (8504.5 MJ/head/y which was equivalent
to 49.9 BOE/head/y) comprising of:
93% (46.4 BOE/head/y) energy for cooking
5% (2.495 BOE/head./y) with average of 5.3
kWh/head/d or 1934.5 kWh/head/y for lighting.
2% (0.998 BOE) for ironing.
SPU and E3i village
SPU ( Small Processing Unit) can be used as source of income and place of employment for the villageincome villagers
SPU is one kind of SME which uses locally developed technology and available renewable energy sources to
process local agro and marine products into high quality forms and have market value
The size of SPU should be managable by local entrepreneurs and technicians after proper training
As SPU developed into SMEs more capital become available in the village and to be used for investment in basic E3i village infrastructures
RD/D activities to support the E3i village
Hybrid GHE Solar-biomass-wind drying systems
Hybrid nocturnal-cooling tower-adsorption cooling systems for preservation of fruits and vegetables
CHP using biomass wastes as centralized renewable energy supply
Combined thermoelectric and compressive cooling using l PV f t l solar for remote area pearl culture
Biomass powered adsorption cooling machine Non-catalytic production of bio-diesel and bio-kerosene
Performance of combustion devices using bio-kerosene
Hybrid nocturnal cooling system
Use shallow ponds with atomizers on roof top of storage house
Adsorption cooling using biomass heating or compressive cooling with non CFC regrigerants as auxiliary cooling devices
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