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Efficient Energy Systems in BCIL Collective
‘Power conscience meters’ are installed in the distribution boards of each home, for you to gauge how much power you are currently using as a family. The purpose is to encourage you to turn off energy device when they are used wastefully.
Natural light lifts spirits, makes spaces appear larger and lessens demands on electricity, an important factor in today’s energy – conscious world. Natural light also has been shown to reduce eyestrain and increase productivity. People function better in light filled environments. Making good use of natural light cuts the need of artificial lighting and helps provide a feeling of well-being. Providing an outdoor view exercises your eyes more, due to the adjustment in focal length when looking outside. Energy costs are slashed because day lighting produces less heat than artificial light and requires less air conditioning.
CFL bulbs light each home. That is the start we give you to reduce your monthly power bills. These CFL bulbs cut down the power needed for lighting down to a third. Also, CFLs are the most efficient of lighting devices, dishing out more lumens for every watt of power consumed. So you have well-lit homes at half of your normal home’s cost per month.
Each of us would love to have that owned parcel of ground for and a patch of green. These homes come with their own sky gardens… Yes, even at the upper floors. These sky gardens serve as thermal insulation to the floors below and as dust traps to the living areas that open into your living or bedroom. Now combine these thermal comfort gains with the geothermal and stack effect systems that we mentioned earlier and we have a formula for year round internal living comfort.
Diesel generators are the bane of urban India… for the pollution that results and also for the atmospheric imbalances that it causes at the global scale. BCIL has been promoting the use of green power alternatives, from biomass gassifiers to solar power. At BCIL Collective your fuel for backup power will be biodiesel, made from refined seed oil from the pongamea or jatropha seed. At costs that currently match petro diesel and with the inevitable rise of conventional fuels, these green fuels offer us a much more secure future.
