PPW

WindVEIL is a development project and is currently explored. More information will be posted at the prototype stage.

WindVEIL is a new ‘parasitic’ product, providing cheap but low efficiency energy for lighting. It acts to provide shelter from the wind in public places.

Partners:
Anthony Kitchener SVW Consulting Engineering and Environmental business consultant

CWP is a development project and can be initiated now.

© Chris Ryan VEIL University of Melbourne. 2007

In responding to the current and future demands for water within a city such as Melbourne we are already witnessing a change of paradigm about the engineering of water systems. Strategies to reduce demand, by technology and behaviour change, are complemented by new approaches to supply based on a distributed systems approach. This recognises that fresh-water is a distributed resource and that there is a significant energy cost to moving water around. The new distributed system approach encompasses greater reuse of waste water, but treatment of waste streams also has an energy cost. In the context of action on global warming any expansion of the water supply that adds to CO2 production creates a problem.