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Stable natural energy for a safe Tokyo2020 April 22 2014 a group of journalists and engineers in Tokyo initiated the "Safe City Japan Project". The project targets to install 1000 small wood fired combined heat power units in Olympic facilities, hotels and apartment buildings by August 2020. Based on the experience of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophy in Northeast Japan March 2011 and on the pledge [1] by The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to use only green energy for Tokyo2020, the devices will provide disaster resilient distributed electricity and hot water from local renewable and sustainable resources. An event like March 2011 hitting Tokyo Metropolis cutting water, gas and electricity lines will within hours turn 10 Mio residents into refugees with no place to go even if all buildings remain intact. The project emphasizes distributed energy supply with storable fuel. Each machine can support 70 average Japanese households with electricity and heat from wood chips. 1000 machines will usually serve only 70000 households. However during a crisis the distributed machines will be able to power nighttime lighting and telecommunication for about 7 Mio households, because during a power crisis high priority electricity need is only 1% of normal consumption. Distributed emergency power for 7 Mio households will make a substantial contribution towards disaster resistance of the large cities of Japan. Installation cost is estimated at less than JPY100billion, to be financed with green electricity sales proceeds. Nominal output 45MW electricity and 90MW heat, yearly energy is 1PJ electricity and 2PJ heat. The projects impact beyond the Olymic Games 2020 is disaster resistance as value to urban residents, new growth markets to forestry, and tangible progress towards storable, renewable and sustainable energy supply for modern Japan. [1] http://tokyo2020.jp/en/plan/candidature/dl/tokyo2020_candidate_section_5_enfr. pdf http://tokyo2020.jp/jp/plan/candidature/dl/tokyo2020_candidate_section_5_jp.p -- Dr Oskar Bartenstein IFCJ KK Ecolifelab 5-28-2 Sendagi Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 1130022 oskar (dot) bartenstein (at) ecolifelab (dot) com +81-(0)90-9316-0956 http://www.ecolifelab.com _______________________________________________ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
