An On-Line course offered by Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York Campus
Spring term, T.H. Culhane, Instructor
Thursday, September 6, 2007
549 Using the Sun's Light to Defeat the Sun's Heat
Message no. 549 Posted by Thomas Culhane (1311520071) on Sunday, March 4, 20073:42pm Subject: Solar Air Conditioning: Using the Sun's Light to Defeat the Sun's Heat
We've created and posted a new video to accompany chapter 14's hopeful message of changing behavior to save the environment -- this one on Air Conditioning. It shows our neighborhood in Cairo (and the interior of our ugly egyptian apartment) and the Deb's park solar airconditioning system in Los Angeles where they not only get al their cooling from the sun, but simultaneous get all their hot water, distill and purify dirty water and recycle all their grey and black water. They are completely independent from the city grid, producing all their own electricity, and independent from city sewage systems.
Improving our environment brick by brick, solar panel by solar panel
Instructor T.H. Culhane and the Zabaleen teachers and students of Cairo in front of their home built solar hot water system in the "garbage recycling community" of Manshiyat Nasser
T.H. Culhane (shown above in Athens, Greece, by the poster to the movie "Stealth" which he contributed vocal music to while working with his friend,composer Brian Transeau) lived in Egypt, Germany and the United States where he founded "Solar Cities".
Referring to Herman Daly's comments on the sustainability of Spaceman Economies and Cowboy Economies, we are committed to Boulding and Fuller's notions of helping to maintain "spaceship earth" as a viable home. Thus
T.H. completed his Ph.D. at UCLA in Urban Planning looking at issues surrounding microeconomic analysis of demand for hot water technologies. Ultimately it is hoped that this will help address implementation challenges for Solar Energy Policy while helping create an Environmental Economics Institute at AUC and a Sustainability Center at Mercy College in New York, in partnership with mentor professors (among them Randall Crane and Lois Takahashi (UCLA Institute of the Environment and UCLA Urban Planning) Jeff Miller (AUC Biology),Salah Arafa (AUC Physics) Tarek Selim (AUC Economics) Salah El Haggar (AUC Engineering) Nick Hopkins (AUC Anthropology) and Moshira Hassan (AUC Marine Ecology)
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