It’s summer times and the heat is becoming unbearable in today’s world, with cities like Delhi setting a national record of 52.3 degrees Celsius, and it really begs the question, how much more heat can we handle before we reach our limit? For me personally, i can’t imagine living in a world 10-20 years from now where temperatures like this become the norm and a world where Air conditioners used as much as fans.
Furthermore, with the increasing usage of Air conditioners, the world is only going to get hotter with all that extra heat and several thousand extra tonnes of greenhouse gases being emitted into our atmosphere by the exhausts. It’s like an inevitable loop, the world gets hot, we use Air conditioners to cool ourselves down in-turn releasing several green house gases which then goes on to make the world even hotter and so then we use even more Air conditioners….and so on, you get the point. There’s nothing we can do to break this cycle…unless, we find a way to cool our CITIES in a SUSTAINABLE and ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY way, and that’s not such an easy task. It requires years and years of developing new technology, testing it, and finally making it efficient and cost-effective before it finally reaches our cities, and this got me thinking of a certain idea.
Imagine we could build MASSIVE vertical fans the size of our tallest buildings, and place them across the city, and then place several smaller windmills in the direction of the wind blown from these huge fans, as a result we could create large tunnels of wind and air flow that would cool the city down and in turn these strong winds would also get our wind-mills moving, creating a little bit of power to compensate for the energy used in powering these fans. While it’s not a 100% efficient it still gives us a way to re-produce some of the energy used up in the whole process making it somewhat sustainable.
While this may not be a very effective way in cooling our cities it’s time we all start thinking on how we can get our cities cooler, it takes a 1000 failed ideas to come up with 1 great solution.