What is a DRAIG community Power Station? Well as the name suggests it is a Power Station placed within a community to generate electricity and benefit that community. The plan is to recruit 98% local labour for the power station. If there is no indiginous coal, then extra employment can be created by forming local farmers into a co-operative to plant bamboo or giant reed around the power station. Bamboo is a truly renewable energy crop providing a “Green” Energy solution, but at the same time creating employment. The whole concept of a community Power station is to provide power and benefit the local community. DRAIG is a 'Not for Profit' Organisation. Our plan is to donate every penny of our profits to needy causes , such as orphanages , hospitals and clinics. WHere we see a needy cause in a community we may be able to channel some of the profit generated from the sale of electricity into community projects, such as building a new town, road building, clinics, schools, libraries & street lighting.
Bamboo Power is our description of growing locally a truly renewable energy crop, such as Bamboo or giant reed. The Bamboo could be planted and grown by contract farmers around the power station.
Ancillary profit generating businesses can also be placed around the power station, using some of the excess heat generated from burning bamboo that would normally be vented to the atmosphere to create profit making ventures. On a small 50 MWe power station, after chipping the bamboo it passes through a drying station where 12,000 Litres of water per hour will be recovered, by placing a bottling plant in proximity to the power station, some of this clean sterilized water can be bottled and sold. Some of the recovered water can be channeled into dams where a commercial fish farm can be established. The nutrient rich water from the fish farm can be channeled to a series of hydroponics tunnels growing vegetables. Over production of bamboo allows the excess biofuel to be sold to local homesteads as a domestic cooking fuel, ideal for wood burning stoves. A small feedlot will supply manure. This manure can be composted with the fish guts from the fish farm, waste vegetable matter from the hydroponics farm. This composted matter is mixed with the residue bamboo potash from the power station to make a high grade fertilizer, which can be bagged and sold to local farmers.
A Garden City has a harmonious relationship with nature and is energy efficient. A Garden City is a carbon neutral city and does not pollute. It’s planning, design and resources are deployed to achieve this goal. Citizens and the Government in the Garden City have a collective responsibility in their daily lives to design and implement such policies. This could be ensuring the provision clean, safe and efficient public transport, the ability to navigate the Garden City by walking or bicycle. On one hand and the ability to reduce waste, recycle and reuse resources by Citizens on the other. .
The Energy Centre has been designed that it can take many different types of fuel, from fossil fuels to bio-fuels.
A Garden City is a fair, just and harmonious community. It is not restricted to new cities or towns or those built following traditional garden city town planning, architectural or design principles.
A Garden City is about community not merely about architecture and urban design.
It is about building a harmonious community balancing the best of town and country together to community where the measure of success is ultimately the happiness of the people who live in it.
The Garden City promotes urban agriculture, the ability for citizens to grow their own food even in an urban area. There is a right of free and fair access to the land for all residents to grow their own food whether it through common allotments, common land, farms, productive streets and parks or private gardens. Alongside this is the right for affordable housing and also the right of access to resources in urban areas to build or run their individual or collective businesses or workshops. It is a productive city that aims at its own self-sufficiency providing opportunities for agricultural work, crafts, commerce and industry. Rents are provided to encourage self-sufficiency and regeneration, provided in partnership with tenants not just for tenants. The goal is for the City to be productive and sustainable in its own right not as a dormitory settlement.
Space and design of the city is in harmony with the landscape and nature. New developments and housing in the town have Garden City space and design characteristics and aim to promote the health and wellbeing of its citizens, current and future and are developed through participatory methods on fundamental issues not just cosmetic ones. Public spaces are widely available as an important concept as it provides the means for people to meet and share views and to integrate. These public spaces and facilities bring together young and old, rich and poor, those of different races, religions and backgrounds as a community that celebrates and rejoices in its diversity and exercises tolerance and freedom.
A Garden City has a harmonious relationship with nature and is energy efficient. A Garden City is a carbon neutral city and does not pollute.
It’s planning, design and resources are deployed to achieve this goal. Citizens and the Government in the Garden City have a collective responsibility in their daily lives to design and implement such policies.
This could be ensuring the provision clean, safe and efficient public transport, the ability to navigate the Garden City by walking or bicycle on one hand and the ability to reduce waste, recycle and reuse resources by Citizens on the other.
Space and design of the city is in harmony with the landscape and nature. New developments and housing in the town have Garden City space and design characteristics and aim to promote the health and wellbeing of its citizens, current and future and are developed through participatory methods on fundamental issues not just cosmetic ones. Public spaces are widely available as an important concept as it provides the means for people to meet and share views and to integrate. These public spaces and facilities bring together young and old, rich and poor, those of different races, religions and backgrounds as a community that celebrates and rejoices in its diversity and exercises tolerance and freedom..
DRAIG International believe that every industrial advancement should carry with it community and social benefits. Working to make a better World.
Progress through planning.
