YouTo Vilafranca 2012: Ecological

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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Renewable energy in Catalonia

We are suprised that in countries with worse conditions than us, they have more facilities to create renewable energy. Although we have perfect conditions to do it, because for example we have a lot of sun all the year, and rivers where we could put water turbines.

The energy that we have devoloped more is the wind turbines. In some of the top of the mountains you can find a few, but still it could be much more. For example as we heard there are so called windparks with more than 100 windmills. But in the discussion we did the Germans told us also that there are a lot of people that don't want the mills because they destroy the landscape. In this way we found out that we are similar in that point because also in Catalonia People are complaining about this.

Now some private people and also in public places they are starting to put some solar power plants. But we feel that with all we all the sun we have we really pay more attention on this issue. Another point is that solar power panels on the roofs of houses don't destroy the landscape.

So, every day we are improving in that way, but step by step. But we know there are still a lot of steps to do.

Renewable energy in Oslavany

Renewable energy in Oslavany / Czech Republic

We have not so large possibilities in green energy producing as Germany or Denmark. We have only few water turbines, little bit more wind plants and the most used kind of green power plants are solar. The solar power plans had massive support from government for last 4 years, but now they stop it, because the boom was so large, that it has produced more negatives than positives. The biggest problem is that most parts of Czech Republic are not really well suitable for solar power plants due to not so much sun shining as in the other countries.

Directly in Oslavany we have 15th biggest solar power plant in the Czech Republic. It's located on the filled sedimentation lake behind already deactivated coal power plant. So the area which was not usable anymore for anything else(because of some toxicity) find it's new purpose. The power from this solar power plant is around 8 MW which is more than all the people and companies in Oslavany needs. So from this point of view Oslavany are "fully" green.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Organical horts

This afternoon we walked to a wonderful biological garden after having some informations about the creation and the operation of it. We took some photos of this "hort".

The compost is made by organical wastes and excrements taken in dry toilets, we purify this, and you have a wonderful compost!!!

Eco-House in Vilafranca del Penedès

Today we visited an ecological house here in Vilafranca.
The owners of that house are used to live from natural resources, e.g. you can find some suncollectors on the roof. They totally heat the water and produce electricity. They drink rainwater and they take a shower with that water, they have a "dry toilet" (it works without water) and they recycle their excrements and use them in the garden to fertilize their fruits and vegetables.

They have 2 underground containers that collect all the water falling from the sky in their garden.
The walls are very thick and in consequence of that the heat isn't as intensive as it is outside in the heat of the sun.
So it was very interesting to get new knowledge about eco-houses and how they work.