Part 3: How to save energy for lighting in China?

The Great Wall of China in Ba Da Ling. We took about one and half hour journey from Beijing town to Ba Da Ling via High speed train or local express shuttle bus.

 Guest house in Beijing name 235 Guest house is located in Old Beijing town. 10 minutes walking distance to nearest subway station. A great choice for backpackers especially Malaysian who are looking affordable pricing and clean room . The room rate  start from 200 Yuan=RM100 per night for 2 person during Spring Season (April 2013). Plenty of convenience shops and local Chinese Food Cuisine Restaurant (Beijing Style food & Muslim foods)  are available for those who are hunting for local food.

This is the long stretch of corridors to access your guest house room. Green building design such as semi transparent glass window design style allows natural sun as a great lighting source for indoor during day time.

 At night, motion sensor incorporated with photocell are used along the corridors to control the all the lighting. 

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Part 1 :How to select Energy Efficient Air conditioner in China?

Part 2 :Go Green In Beijing-Cycling to work & Shopping

Part 2 :Go Green In Beijing-Cycling to work & Shopping

Figure 1 :

Beijing Township- WangFujin. is one of the famous street for bookstores and shopping heaven in the town.

Figure 2:

Old Beijing township name AnDingMeng is well developed for green township. Majority of people are using bicycles or electric bicycles  as their transportation to travel from one place to another destination. Cycling is safe over here and there are plenty of bicycle lanes for them to move around in their old township.

Figure 3: 

Big parking bay for bicycles at strategic location  such as near to Beijing subway station or shopping center (Carrefour) is commonly available in various location. In Malaysia, we are facing insufficient  car parking lots especially near  LRT or KTM station!

Figure 4:

How to rent a bicycle ? There are many bicycle renting "vending  machine" for your convenience if you feel to cycle bicycle at other part of Beijing city. Firstly, you need to have a prepaid card (multipurpose "touch n go" card ) which is showing in Figure 5. Paid a deposit of  20Yuan (RM10) for the prepaid card and reload money as much as you like (see Figure 5), you can enjoy convenience of using rental bicycle by just swiping your card on the screen of the front desk bicycle (see Figure 4).

Figure 5: 

Multipurpose prepaid card for all transportation in China (including subway, shuttle bus, bicycle renting, phone call, MRT etc)

Figure 6:

Bicycle Renting bay for your convenience

Last but no least, for those who renting bicycle, please do remember to return back the renting bicycle and swipe the multipurpose card after using the bicycle. Penalty will incur on your multipurpose card if you had forgotten to swipe the card in future.

Conclusion:
Go for Green Lifestyle in Beijing! Beijing has putting up alot of efforts in promoting green electric tram, electric bicycle, bicycle and super convenience public transport with very low price (RM0.40 for one way trip of shuttle bus and RM1 for a one way trip of subway)
Of course, healthy green lifestyle bring great fitness body shape and slim figure for most of Chinese in Beijing.
Public Transportation in Beijing is excellence. I would say their transportation are seamless and please avoid to use their subway/shuttle bus during peak hour or weekend unless you wanna to have a great feel of become "human sandwich ".

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Part 1 :How to select Energy Efficient Air conditioner in China?

Part 1 :How to select Energy Efficient Air conditioner in China?

My recent holiday visit to Beijing was an amazing experience to see how a large population country such as  China in effort of creating a sustainable and energy saving environment  for their future generation.

Part 1:
China has their own energy star label which is called China Energy LABEL.

Rating 1: Most Energy Efficient (Least Energy Consumption)
Rating 3: Middle Range of Energy Efficient
Rating 5: Most inefficient (Highest Energy Consumption)

Based on the China Energy Label of this air conditional, it is categorized Rating as 2.77. (Middle range of Energy efficient)

Transform your bottles to creative planting pots

I have came across very impressive idea to recycle our plastic bottles to transform as an useful plant pot....Thumb up!


Great idea from Ecolutionist.
Picture from :https://www.facebook.com/ecolutionist

Feed In Tariff- How much money i can make from Solar Power?

Putting up solar panel on house rooftop with capacity of  6kW solar panel, how much money i can make from selling electricity to local utility under scheme Feed In Tariff in Malaysia?

From our data collection, a typical sunny day produces about average 27.7kWh per day  and the peak (maximum solar power generation) is about 5.916kW at 2:30pm.

Conclusion, this grid connected solar system capable to generate passive income at the average of RM38.00 in sunny day.

Related Post:

Feed In Tariff : How to make money from solar without losing your money?

How to save money- Use correct Voltage for Electrical Equipment

Do you experience electrical equipment doesn't last long in your household such as your LED lamp, ipad charger and etc?

Do you know that our utility supply in Malaysia (TNB) is supplying 230V-252V and your equipment is designed to work well and efficient at rated voltage of  220V?

The fast, natural way to cut off and stabilize over voltage in your home installation is using power conditioner ( or Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR)).

Benefits:

1.Save appliance from Overheating ( due to Over Voltage)

2. Appliance last longer

3.Safety

4.Save Energy- Saving your electricity up to 10% due to over drive equipment in higher voltage and eventually create power losses such as heat

5.Safe environment

How to save energy -Off grid Remote Control Solar Powered Automatic Main Gate?

How to save energy for your automatic main gate? Off grid Remote Control Solar Powered Automatic Gate might be another great alternative to save energy. It is 100% carbon Free emission!!
Below are the simple "investment" for your green initiative:

1. 1x 15W, 12V solar panel
2. 1x 12V solar charge controller
3.1 x 12V, 7AH Valve Regulated Lead Acid Battery (Sealed Lead Acid Battery)

How to save energy using LED Streetlights? City of Vancouver Shows the way

City of Vancouver (Canada) making the transition to LED Streetlights. You may have noticed recently that some of the streetlights in Vancouver cast a different sort of light.

Refer to the picture, old streetlights (left) are being replaced with newer, more efficient LEDs in Vancouver (right)

Home of Kajang making the transition to Solar Energy.

Why 6kW Grid Connected Photovoltaic Solar Power System?

The long term trend is clear demand for electricity is growing and Foo Hi Kium

Is planning now to meet the needs of his family & TNB into the future.

President Obama State of the union address 2013

“ Free our families and businesses from the painful spikes in gas prices that we have put up with far too long.

 “From an environmental perspective it was the right thing to do,

So I went ahead with it” (Foo-2013) (www.foosolar.com)

How to save energy in Laos ? Energy Star

Laos is famous of  World Heritage sites declared by UNESCO since the year 1995. 

Today, Luang Prabang township has transformed 1960 styles shops to guest houses, bars and entertainment spots to meet the increasing demand of tourists inflow to this heritage township. Early of morning (about 6:30AM),  ceremony of  food giving to monks is the start of the day in Luang Prabang.

This is the guest house located in the heritage township -Luang Prabang operated by Malaysian. Most of tourists and local people using bicycles and motorcycles to travel around the town. It is safe to ride bicycle and enjoy the fresh atmosphere without traffic jam and pollution hassle. 

Conclusion: Low Carbon Emission township in transportation

All guesthouse in Laos are well aware about Energy efficiency. 99% of guest house in Laos using 5 Energy Star air conditional  (Energy Star Rating-Most energy efficiency) and preset the temperature of 24 degree C. Honestly, we don't need air conditional in Laos. The outdoor temperature is below 24 degree C during night time.

 

5 energy star rating refrigerator is commonly used in their household and phamancy. Personally, i saw all home appliances sold in their electrical appliances shops are rated at 5 Energy Star.

Another great example is 5 Energy Star water heater/hot shower in Luang Prabang Guest house.