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THE MARS OASIS
The Mars Oasis is part of the Tricolonization concept being developed by the
“Humanarium Project!” Looking toward the day when man actually colonizes
space many earthbound prototypes of the possible habitats will be developed right
here on Earth. We want our prototypes to be both self-sustaining and
economically viable. Governments don’t worry about the money factor because
they only use other people’s money but the private sector needs to have a return on
investment to motivate them properly.
The private sector always does things better and faster so our “Mars Oasis” will
have to meet this requirement while demonstrating its practical use in hostile
environments. One of the most hostile lifestyles is life in the desert. While it is
true that Mars is not exactly like our knowledge of earthly deserts it is also true
that when we do finally get to some of those exoplanets they may be very much
like our earthbound environments.
We are using an area in the remote areas of Borrego Springs for many practical
reasons. Its proximity to both San Diego and Los Angeles makes it a great tourist
attraction that can showcase many of the new innovations in sustainable
development at a very reasonable price.
The concept is to build a standard five thousand square foot rectangular mansions
with a highly designed use of solar voltaic for all exterior walls and some
underground mansions with the surface development done in a food park motif. A
fully sustainable housing community with standard grid connections as back-up!
The sustainability includes utilities, food, shelter, transportation and homeowner’s
fees. The homeowner’s fees include taxes, insurance and maintenance so once you
own one of these units you have a sustainable lifestyle built in. Furthermore if you
purchase two or more you will have a lively income and a permanent residence
with all of them fully sustainable without outside income.
Sustainable Utilities: Use of both solar and wind power with the latest design
concepts including solar domes and solar and wind trees and some artsy designs to
liven up the park atmosphere. The project will conform to all the current rules for
the standard way of developing utilities but these utilities will only be used as a
backup in case the homeowner’s systems have any kind of problem.
SOLAR VOLTAIC SCULPTURE FOR THE PARK
NEW TYPE OF WINDMILL AND TURBINE
ADD CERAMIC DECROTIVE TILES FOR THE PARK
Sustainable Food: By placing the living space underground as much as possible
the cost of construction will go down and the square footage can even increase but
one of the most important benefits is the ability to use the ground to create a food
park. The displaced dirt will be used to make mounds over utility and battery
storage buildings. This will increase the surface area for the food park design and
create intense sun areas and shaded areas for different types of plants. This will
increase the diversity possible. The park design will be aesthetically designed so it
doesn’t look like a working farm but have more of park atmosphere. Hydroponic
methods will also be used and maintained by the association.
A special fish farm plan that grows tilapia and fancy guppies as food sources.
Miniature meat sources will be given priority under tricolonization rationale.
Sustainable Shelter: General Steel gives a fifty year guarantee on the structure and
has a minimum maintenance factor. Use of 3D printers will allow for interior
recycling of all plastics and some other materials as the technology evolves. High
definition windows can keep the views as interesting as is possible using web cam
scenes and other preplanned programs.
Sustainable Transportation: Each owner will own their own RV for vacations and
long distance travelling hopefully from one location to another with these kinds of
amities for the serious mobile lifestyle. Each unit has four doors to provide a
circular indoor drive through of the unit for the both the RV and for an electric
vehicle supplied by the homeowners association for local transportation.
Sustainable Homeowner’s Fees: With a built-in utility company the homeowner’s
general services will be offset by in house technologies owned jointly by the
homeowners. All food will be sold at the current market prices with the profits
used to offset taxes. Insurance and maintenance for the general benefit of the
homeowners.
NASA has done extensive hydroponic research for their Controlled Ecological Life
Support System or CELSS. Hydroponics intended to take place on Mars are using
LED lighting to grow in different color spectrum with much less heat.
“bioregenerative life support system”
Advantages
Some of the reasons why hydroponics is being adapted around the world for food
production are the following:
No soil is needed for hydroponics
The water stays in the system and can be reused - thus, lower water costs
It is possible to control the nutrition levels in their entirety - thus, lower
nutrition costs
No nutrition pollution is released into the environment because of the
controlled system
Stable and high yields
Pests and diseases are easier to get rid of than in soil because of the container's
mobility
It is easier to harvest
No pesticide damage
Plants grow healthier
It is better for consumption
Aeroponics is a system wherein roots are continuously or discontinuously kept in
an environment saturated with fine drops (a mist or aerosol) of nutrient solution.
The method requires no substrate and entails growing plants with their roots
suspended in a deep air or growth chamber with the roots periodically wetted with
a fine mist of atomized nutrients. Excellent aeration is the main advantage of
aeroponics.
Aeroponic techniques have proved to be commercially successful for propagation,
seed germination, seed potato production, tomato production, leaf crops, and
micro-greens. Since inventor Richard Stoner commercialized aeroponic technology
in 1983, aeroponics has been implemented as an alternative to water intensive
hydroponic systems worldwide. The limitation of hydroponics is the fact that 1 kg
of water can only hold 8 mg of air, no matter whether aerators are utilized or not.
Another distinct advantage of aeroponics over hydroponics is that any species of
plants can be grown in a true aeroponic system because the micro environment of
an aeroponic can be finely controlled. The limitation of hydroponics is that only
certain species of plants can survive for so long in water before they
become waterlogged. The advantage of aeroponics is that suspended aeroponic
plants receive 100% of the available oxygen and carbon dioxide to the roots zone,
stems, and leaves, thus accelerating biomass growth and reducing rooting times.
NASA research has shown that aeroponically grown plants have an 80% increase
in dry weight biomass
(essential minerals) compared to hydroponically grown plants. Aeroponics used
65% less water than hydroponics. NASA also concluded that aeroponically grown
plants requires ¼ the nutrient input compared to hydroponics. Unlike
hydroponically grown plants, aeroponically grown plants will not suffer transplant
shock when transplanted to soil, and offers growers the ability to reduce the spread
of disease and pathogens. Aeroponics is also widely used in laboratory studies of
plant physiology and plant pathology. Aeroponic techniques have been given
special attention from NASA since a mist is easier to handle than a liquid in a zero
gravity environment.
Several tools exists to help anyone prepare their own solutions without extensive
knowledge about chemistry. The free and open source tools HydroBuddy and
HydroCal have been created by professional chemists to help any hydroponics
grower prepare their own nutrient solutions. The first program is available for
Windows, Mac and Linux while the second one can be used through a simple Java
interface. Both programs allow for basic nutrient solution preparation although
HydroBuddy provides added functionality to use and save custom substances, save
formulations and predict electrical conductivity values.
ECHOTec Watermakers / Watermaker - Reverse Osmosis Desalination Systems
http://www.echotecwatermakers.com/
Specifications, System Features and Prices:
Model
Production
gallons hr. -day
Production
liters hr. -day
Pressure Vessels
Amps
115/230V 60Hz
Amps
230V 50Hz
Prices US$ Semi Modular System
Prices US$ Vertical System
500 - PRO - 1 20 - 480 75 - 1810 1 x 40 " 8.4 / 4.2 5.4 $ 6,750 (1) N/A
700 - PRO - 2 (3) 30 - 720 114 - 2730 2 x 40 " n/a 5.4 $ 7,280 (1) N/A
780 - PRO - 2 (3) 32 - 768 120 - 2880 2 x 40 " 8.4 / 4.2 n/a $ 7,280 (1) N/A
900 - PRO - 2 38 - 912 143 - 3450 2 x 40 " 16.4 / 8.2 9.2 $ 7,550 (1) $ 7,850 (2)
1200 - PRO - 3 50 - 1200 190 - 4540 3 x 40 " 16.4 / 8.2 9.2 $ 8,660 (1) $ 8,960 (2)
1500 - PRO - 4 (3) 60 - 1500 227 - 5670 4 x 40 " 16.4 / 8.2 9.2 N/A $ 9,850 (2)
SmartLight redirects sunlight into "light-locked" building interiors
Jason Heikenfeld who developed the
system with Anton Harfmann.
This would eliminate the lighting energy costs by brightening up rooms with
natural light. The SmartLight system is designed to direct sunlight into dark, dingy
rooms located within the bowels of buildings without requiring the installation of
new wiring, ducts, tubes or cables. It also allows excess light to be harnessed and
centrally stored to provide energy for electric lighting on cloudy days.
This same system can be used to direct sunlight to plants underneath a solar voltaic
patio in a “Food Park” i.e., fruits, nuts and veggies. A drip system would provide
the water and nutrients to maximize this saturation. A professional landscape
architect will design the “Food Park” to maximize both the visual appeal and the
nutritional value of the food plant grown based on the scientific facts for each
plant. This will maximize the sustainability of the community.
Aqualibrium
Plants require nutrients to grow. Aquaponics uses a closed loop ecosystem
composed of a fish tank and a garden. The fish produce the nutrients that feed the
garden, while the plant roots act as a bio-filter – soaking up nutrients and cleaning
the water for the fish.
Hydroponic gardening replaces fish with pre-bottled nutrients that promote
vigorous plant growth. All that’s plants filter and purify the water for the fish.
While no specific species of fish is needed, we recommend tiger barbs, neon tetras,
and other smaller fish which can be purchased at your local pet shop. The healthy,
vigorous root systems of the needed is a small amount of nutrients a few times a
week.
Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water purification technology that uses a semipermeable
membrane. This membrane-technology is not properly a filtration method. In RO,
an applied pressure is used to overcome osmotic pressure, a colligative property
that is driven by chemical potential, a thermodynamic parameter. RO can remove
many types of molecules and ions from solutions and is used in both industrial
processes and in producing potable water. The result is that the solute is retained
on the pressurized side of the membrane and the pure solvent is allowed to pass to
the other side. To be "selective," this membrane should not allow large molecules
or ions through the pores (holes), but should allow smaller components of the
solution (such as the solvent) to pass freely.
In the normal osmosis process, the solvent naturally moves from an area of low
solute concentration (High Water Potential), through a membrane, to an area of
high solute concentration (Low Water Potential). The movement of a pure solvent
is driven to reduce the free energy of the system by equalizing solute
concentrations on each side of a membrane, generating osmotic pressure. Applying
an external pressure to reverse the natural flow of pure solvent, thus, is reverse
osmosis. The process is similar to other membrane technology applications.
However, there are key differences between reverse osmosis and filtration. The
predominant removal mechanism in membrane filtration is straining, or size
exclusion, so the process can theoretically achieve perfect exclusion of particles
regardless of operational parameters such as influent pressure and concentration.
Moreover, reverse osmosis involves a diffusive mechanism so that separation
efficiency is dependent on solute concentration, pressure, and water flux
rate. Reverse osmosis is most commonly known for its use in drinking water
purification from seawater, removing the salt and other effluent materials from the
water molecules.
Please print this coupon for a $20 Discount off of our standard prices on RO
Systems. With this discount, our RO Systems are now starting at $329
Installed including 5-stages of filtration and 50 gallons per day rated purification.
ProJet 4500 3D printer creates multi-colored plastic items
Although the things that can be done with 3D printers are certainly amazing, many
3D-printed plastic items still have a certain "look" to them. This is largely due to
the fact that each item is all one uniform color. That apparently no longer has to be
the case, however, as 3D Systems has unveiled its ProJet 4500. The company
describes it as "the industry’s only continuous tone full-color plastic 3D printer."
The 4500 utilizes a plastic build material known as VisiJet C4 Spectrum, which is
said to be flexible and strong. Items are built on a pixel-by-pixel basis, with each
pixel potentially being any of "almost one million" colors. This means that the
finished one-piece item can consists of multiple colors of plastic, those colors
either sharply bordered or blending into one another.
Additionally, it is claimed to be two to five times faster than other plastic 3D
printers, plus it incorporates an automatic recycling system for the waste plastic. It
can be operated remotely using an app on a smartphone or tablet, and prints objects
up to 8 x 10 x 8 in (203 x 254 x 203 mm) in size, at a resolution of 600 x 600 DPI.
Details are still scant on exactly how it works and how much it costs. Judging by
its size and weight (600 lb/272 kg), though, it's clearly an industrial machine ... so
don't go planning on putting one on your desk.
If you do want to a multi-color plastic 3D printer of your own, however,
botObjects' ProDesk3D model should be shipping soon.
Solar Trees:
Properly designed solar trees not only create energy but allows the ground
underneath to be part of the “Food Park” with the right amount of sunshine.
One of the newish owners will be our in house provider of all or most of the plastic
products needed for sustainable elements of this development.
Baldwin Manufacturing
baldwinmfg.com
List of some of these construction Items:
Wall to Wall Aquaponics for the interior of the units designed to augment shelves
and electronic.
Solar Trees
Solar Patios
Solar cell tower
South facing walls on the perimeter of the property
3D printers for small items
SOLAR VOLTAIC SCULPTURES FOR THE PARK
Sol-Char: Producing Char from Waste using Solar Energy
University of Colorado
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact CU About This Technology
Research group with a test fiber optic bundle transmitting light from test
concentrator.
Technology Marketing Summary
A recent “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge” put forth by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation called for researchers to develop sanitation solutions that are affordable
and desirable to use, render fecal waste harmless within a short time-span, are self-
contained without the need for flush water or electricity, and produce valuable end
products. Current waterless toilets – such as dry pit latrines, ventilated improved
pit (VIP) latrines, and composting toilets – fall short of these ideals. Dry pit
latrines and VIPs are plagued with difficulties associated with the removal of
contents from full pits, and the need to treat the waste offsite once it is removed
poses additional risks to public health and the environment. Composting toilets
require an external power source or intensive user input in order to properly
maintain the compost, are often associated with undesirable odors, and require
extended lengths of time before the waste is rendered safe and suitable for use as a
soil amendment in agriculture.
A University of Colorado research group led by Alan Weimer has taken on the
challenge of “Reinventing the Toilet.” In September of 2012, this group (with
Principal Investigator Karl Linden) received funding from the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation to develop a novel toilet that produces char from waste using
solar energy.
Description
This toilet, the Sol-Char, is a waterless, self-contained toilet that can function
completely off-the-grid by capturing readily available solar energy. Concentrated
sunlight is delivered to fiber optic bundles located at the focus of parabolic
concentrators; the fiber optic cables are fed to the reaction compartment of the Sol-
Char where the various individual cables are terminated at an outer or “solar” lid
positioned over the waste collection container. The innovative transmission of
solar power illuminates the inner collection container and disinfects the waste
though convection and radiation heat transfer. The reaction compartment
comprises two containers that are alternated between “collection” and “reaction”
modes via a simple carousel system that can be automated (powered with
photovoltaic energy) or manually controlled. The reactor is designed to achieve
high temperatures with minimal heat loss due to specially designed insulation and
produces a safe and useable product. The Sol-Char toilet can be developed for
virtually any number of users with solar power input scaled accordingly. Means for
innovative odor control and final product storage/collection (for later use as a soil
amendment) are also being developed as a part of the Sol-Char.
Growing Food in Sand:
The hydrogel technology is the invention of Waseda University Visiting
Professor Yuichi Mori, who has years of experience in developing polymeric
membranes for use in medical technologies such as blood purification and oxygen
enrichment.
But Mori saw the greatest need was in desert farming in a future world faced with
explosive population growth, but diminishing potential for traditional soil-based
agriculture due to soil degradation, erosion, and drought.
His hydrogel membrane–based plant cultivation technology has a unique
membrane technology. The simple system is much more portable than traditional
hydroponics.
Mori has launched a company, Mebiol, to commercialize the technology, which
solves many of the farming problems found in deserts, the age-old agricultural
problems due to the unpredictability of water supplies.
Blue Diversion toilet is flushed with success
Two years ago, an off-grid closed-system toilet known as the Diversion won an
award at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Reinventing the Toilet" fair.
Created by the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
and now called the Blue Diversion, it recently also won the title of Most Innovative
Project (Europe/West Asia), as bestowed by the International Water Association.
So, what makes it so special? Well, for one thing, the same water that flushes it is
subsequently used in its hand-washing sink.
Thermoelectric Refrigerators, Koolatron
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