Building a Better Bangkok Every Little Helps

Cover Page Table of Contents Page 1-5 Grayson’s:

Green energy, Air pollution. Page 5-7 Jack’s:

Water, Housing/Distribution. Page 7-10 Cameron’s:

Green Architecture, Social Stratification/Poverty. Page 10-18 Gabe’s:

Education, Transportation Glossary

Table of CONTENTS

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Building a Better

Bangkok

 

Energy

     

WHATS  THE  PROBLEM  DOES  BANGKOK  USE  TOO  MYCH  ENERGY?     WE  WILL  EXPLAIN  THE  ENERGY  PROBLEMS    

Bangkok   is   using   too  much   energy   and   we  need   to   help   reduce   the  amount   of   fossil   fuels  being  burnt  to  power  this  megalopolis  Bangkok.  

 As  well  as  Bangkok  already   not   being   very  energy   efficient   most   of  the   energy   created   by  burning   fossil   fuels   are  damaging   the  environment.  

One   of   Bangkok’s  worst  energy  problems  is  abandoned   buildings.  

The   buildings   have   live  outlets  and   these  outlets  are   not   energy   efficient,  this   means   that   the  building   is   still   drawing  electricity   from   the  main  power  grid.  

Another   problem   is  that   the   telephone   lines  and  the  main  power  lines  are   not   energy   efficient  because   the   energy   is  traveling   farther   through  the  wires  that  were  there  temporarily.    

 

 

TONS Bangkok  uses  ≈  1,000,000,000  Metric  tons  of  coal.  

 

NOT ENOUGH  Bangkok  is  currently  producing  20  Kwh  of  electricity.  

What Is the Problem? by  Grayson  Heath  

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Bangkok  has  many  innovative  solutions  but  some  of  them  may  not  be  applicable  and  may  need  some  other  ideas  to  counter-­‐act  this.  Bangkok  does  not  have  all  the  resources  for  these  solutions  and  may  need  to  design  the  solution  in  an  applicable  way.  

Here  are  some  easy  and  applicable  solutions  for  Bangkok  to  use:  

Ü Pavegen    Pavegen  solutions  have  an  idea  that  harnesses  electricity  from  your  footsteps  the  idea  is  currently  being  used  in  a  couple  countries  like;  in  the  west  Ham  tube  line  “During  the  Olympics  we  captured  nearly  1  million  footsteps,  this  is  our  online  data  center  where  we  recorded  wirelessly  every  step.  

Our  new  installation,  which  connects  West  Ham  tube  station  to  the  Olympic  Park,  is  going  to  receive  an  estimated  1.3  million  visitors  during  the  Games.”  Pavegen  solutions  say.  

   

 

 

 

 

   

 

   

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Problems The  problem  about  air  pollution  in  Bangkok  and  other  countries  is  arising  to  its  maximum  point  of  damage.  There  are  a  couple  of  ways  we  can  stop  this.  We  need  to  reduce  our  CO2  emissions  a  lot.    Bangkok  is  one  of  the  most  polluted  countries  on  earth.    

This  is  a  problem  because  out  earth  has  an  ozone  layer,  and  the  more  pollution  we  create,  the  heat  gets  trapped  and  starts  to  warm  the  ozone  layer  and  creates  a  problem  because  all  of  the  sunlight  that  enters  earth  needs  to  escape  and  it  can’t.    

 

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68% Co2  emissions  from  gasoline  cars.  

   

42% Co2  emissions  from  hydrogen  cars.  

 

 

 

 

 

INCENTIVE  FOR  RE-­‐FUELING  STATIONS  

Ü Gas  stations  do  not  pay  for  land  if  they  have  hydrogen  refueling  stations.  

Ü People  who  have  hydrogen  powered  cars  do  not  have  to  pay  for  car  insurance.  

Ü Gas  stations  that  have  only  hydrogen  stations  do  not  have  to  pay  for  the  tax  either.  

Air pollution by  Grayson  

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One  of  the  solutions  that  Bangkok  can  use  to  reduce  its  air  pollution  is  using  water  to  create  hydrogen  fuel  with  waste  energy.  Zinc  oxide  and  Barium  titanate  were  put  into  water.  When  these  crystal  received  ultra-­‐sonic  vibrations,  the  crystals  created  a  chemical  reaction,  which  resulted  in  the  water  molecules  splitting  into  hydrogen  and  oxygen.    The  hydrogen  is  useful  fuel  that  does  not  have  high  CO2  emissions  and  can  be  used  in  specific  gas  car  engines.

 

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Better Bangkok Building A Better Bangkok By Cameron

The Problem We need to make the buildings in Bangkok more space and energy efficient, while still making the city look like a very exciting place to go so that many people will go there and experience the green technology and will want to either live there, or have it installed in their own community. There are many ways to do this from reconstructing the city, to adding small changes that in the end will have the same effect as total reconstruction. I am sure that almost everyone who is actually interested in a green city prefers the second option, because the first option would take way too much money and materials, plus it would not be good for the environment.

Green Building and Architecture

If we build a better Bangkok we need to add many things to the skyscrapers of downtown Bangkok. We need to build them like the Bank of America Tower. This means we need to include tons of new systems, like: Greywater, Transparent solar cells, full insolation, ice cooling system, and all new build building should be made of recycled/recyclable materials. This may seem like a lot of technology and very confusing so I will explain what each thing is.

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What Are They? What are all of these weird advanced systems

that should be installed in the building of Bangkok? Here is what each of the things mean.

Greywater System A Greywater system is a water system that takes the used water from your sink or thing and uses it somewhere else. For example the water that you use to wash your dishes may be the same water you use to water your plants later.

The transparent solar cells are microcells that are transparent (see through) will provide solar power without blocking any sunlight or making the building look weird. They can be placed in the middle of a double pane window then installed in all the windows in the building to provide enough solar power they usually at least power the electricity for the day.

Full insolation means that in the cold winters you will not need much of a heater because full insolation will keep all of the heat in and all the cold out. Then in the burning summers they will do the opposite by keeping all the cold air in and keep the hot air out. It is a very useful thing that is cheap and easy to do and will greatly reduce

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Transparent Solar Cells

Full Insolation

An ice cooling system is a system that makes the building freeze ice cubes in the coldest part of the day then during the hottest part of the day it lets them melt providing cheap and very efficient cooling. It will do this procedure everyday, making a good cool room, and saving a lot of money.

Ice Cooling System

Making the building out of recycled/recyclable materials sounds obvious, so why haven’t we already done it? It is because even though it is an obvious thing the materials you need to build it need to be strong and put together well so that the building doesn’t fall apart at the first storm that hits it.

Recycled Materials

If we include all of these things in our new and existing sky scrapers Bangkok will be much more energy efficient. This will help with the environment while adding the option of expansion because there is more space that could be used as long as the buildings are energy efficient, otherwise the area around it would be destroyed because of all the pollution.

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Social Stratification and Poverty

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even in support of the slums, constantly adding new things and making them more like regular suburban areas with parks and things. The government also needs to provide low cost, and knowledge jobs around the slum area so that the people in the slums make enough money to begin to upgrade it on there own. A few cheap upgrades that have been seen in slums are lights that are made of recycled water bottles, Wikipedia centers, and public facilities built in the unused buildings. The water bottle lights are lights that get installed in the roofs of dark slum areas. The bottles work by taking the light from the sun and amplifying it in the water then spreading it across the whole room. It costs about 1 dollar to buy one and another dollar to have it installed. Wikipedia centers are old building in slums that weren’t being used. They take the buildings and turn them into small learning centers where there are a few computers set up with Wikipedia being the only open able page. There they can research whatever they want and Wikipedia will tell them about it. It is a great way for slum communities to learn. The other upgrades that have happened that I know of are the old buildings of slums being turned into different urban facilities, like: schools, bathrooms, and places to wash clothes. These upgrades are crucial because they provide learning and cleanliness a thing that slums don't usually have.

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The problem with social stratification and poverty is that it makes the streets and all of Bangkok look horrible because there are people everywhere with no home. These people have to sit, sleep, eat, and beg on the streets of Bangkok making them look cluttered and making Bangkok very unhealthy. Then there are the people who live in giant 2, 3, or even 4 story houses that just completely enjoy their lives of not having to work very hard and having a huge house. What we need to do is make the rich people have smaller houses and make cheap housing and easy jobs for the people that live on the streets so that they have a chance to start an easy life in an area like a slum with a job that makes them enough money to survive. This may sound like a horrible thing but it is not, as long as we provide the poor areas Wikipedia centers for learning and lights in their houses that are free so they can see the world they live in. A Wikipedia center was first thought of as a thing for slums when people were looking for a way to connect these poorer people to the outside world and giving them a chance to learn so that they can get better jobs and either upgrade the slum or move out. This has happened many times, the slums start as the worst place to live. But then introduce a small bit of the outside world knowledge and life, then its like magic. Over the course of only a few years after installing a connection to the outside world slums will begin to change into regular cities. This has happened in many places and in most cases the government was

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Bangkok  has  too  much  traffic  because  almost  every  family  has  a  car  or  a  motorcycle.  There  is  not  enough  public  transportation  and  the  roads  are  too  small  and  narrow  for  a  lot  of  cars  to  pass  through.      

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Bangkok  has  tried  to  build  more  highways  and  roads  but  almost  always  abandon  them  because  of  lack  of  money.  The  busiest  areas  in  Bangkok  are  also  not  spread  out;  all  the  buildings  are  so  close  together.  This  makes  it  hard  to  build  roads  inside  the  city.  The  lack  of  roads  increases  the  amount  of  traffic  and  air  pollution.  Tourism  is  one  of  Bangkok’s  main  sources  of  income  and  because  of  the  traffic  congestion  and  the  amount  of  pollution,  less  tourist  will  want  to  visit  Bangkok.  The  

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fewer  tourists  that  visit  Bangkok,  the  less  money  Bangkok  will  make.  The  government  should  create  more  public  transportation,  because  if  they  do  not,  the  roads  will  be  packed  with  vehicles.    Tourists  will  not  come  to  Thailand  because  of  it,  and  people  who  live  in  the  suburbs  and  countryside  will  not  be  able  to  commute  to  downtown  to  their  jobs  and  shopping  malls,  like  Paragon.  

 This  Is  the  city  Bangkok  one  of  the  most  populated  city’s  and    one  of  the  cities  with  the  most  traffic  problems.  

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Being  so  populated,  Bangkok  should  create  and  develop  more  public  transportation,  or  it  will  become  one  of  the  most  polluted  cities  In  the  world.  

To  solve  the  traffic  problem,  Bangkok  can  increase  the  tax  of  cars  instead  of  lowering  the  price.  Another  way  to  decrease  traffic  is  to  encourage  schools  to  use  more  school  buses  so  that  the  kids  do  not  need  to  come  to  school  by  car  or  motorcycle.  The  government  can  make  this  happen  by  providing  extra  money  for  schools  to  buy  or  rent  buses.  Another  major  reason  for  congested  roads  is  the  number  of  cars    owned  by  people.  Some  families  have  5  cars!  We  can  allow  “share  cars”  that  people  all  around  Bangkok  can  use,  like  in  Canada  and  Brazil.  We  should  also  assign  private  lanes  for  buses,  like  Brazil  has  successfully  introduced.  This  method  is  cheaper  than  building  a  new  train  line  and  it  has  been  more  effective  too.  Drivers  might  get  mad  with  this  at  first,  but  later  they  will  see  the  effectiveness  of  the  bus  lane  and  they  will  take  the  bus  more  often.  

 Most  populated  parts  of  Bangkok  are  located  around  one  of  the  only  major  public  transportation  units  in  the  city.  The  sky  train.  

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Right  now,  the  Thai  government  is  encouraging  people  to  buy  cars  by  lowering  the  price.  That  is  one  of  the  reasons  why  Bangkok  has  so  many  cars  on  the  street.  The  number  of  vehicles  in  this  city  has  increased  over  the  years,  from  just  600,000  in  1980  to  6.8  million  now.  Bangkok  is  not  enforcing  their  rules  very  well.  Police  officers  can  be  easily  bribed  to  not  give  out  traffic  tickets  to  people  who  violate  traffic  laws.  Old  buses  and  Tuk  Tuk’s  can  provide  transportation  for  people  but  they  are  not  being  efficient.  Tuk  Tuk’s  only  hold  up  to  3  or  4  people  and  they  also  cause  a  lot  of  pollution.  Old  buses  are  useful  because  they  can  hold  a  lot  of  people  at  the  same  time  but  not  every  one  will  want  to  use  them.  They  are  rusty  and  old,  and  most  of  the  time  really  crowded.  People  who  can  afford  to  drive  will  probably  not  take  one  of  those  buses.  The  bus  companies  should  replace  the  old  buses  with  brand  new  ones,  with  even  more  seats  and  air  conditioning.  For  Tuk  Tuk’s,  they  should  be  modified  to  run  on  battery  and  this  will  work  because  Tuk  Tuk’s  do  not  travel  long  distances;  they  will  not  run  out  of  battery  fast  like  the  battery  cars.  Bangkok  should  also  build  more  battery  stations  that  charge  up  the  Tuk  Tuk’s  faster.    

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     These  ideas  to  improve  the  transportation  in  Bangkok  will  help  Bangkok  get  more  income  from  tourists  and  also  from  their  public  transportation.  People  will  want  to  ride  the  buses  because  they  will  be  newer  and  faster  than  taking  a  car.  The  buses  will  have  their  own  lane  and  will  cost  less  to  ride  than  owning  a  car.  Thailand  will  be  a  much  less  polluted  city,  there  will  be  nicer  roads,  less  abandoned  train  stations,  no  abandoned  highways  and  no  more  abandoned  buildings.  

Bangkok  needs  to  get  better  

transportation  if  they  want  lots  of  tourists  to  visit  Bangkok.  

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EDUCATION What is happening now

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Students in Bangkok are not getting good education because of under trained teachers and over crowded classrooms. Most

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public schools in Bangkok are like this. Therefore, when students graduate, they will not be able to find a good job.

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There are a lack of good schools in Bangkok that do not have over crowded classrooms or undertrained teachers. The schools that have well trained teachers and small classes are mostly private or international schools. These schools are

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good but very expensive. Most people can not afford to send their kids to these schools.

Good schools

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The Ministry of Education is getting enough funding from the government, but is not spending it on the right things for Bangkok’s education. Since the Ministry of Education is always changing their curriculum it is impossible for all the teachers to keep up with the curriculum. Places like Singapore have a long-term plan, the Ministry of Education is always changing their plan. Bangkok is also spending money on things for kids that the kids don’t need to learn. For example, Thailand is giving out 1.7 million tablet computers to 6-year old kids and middle school kids, from 12-13 years old. Another problem is that the classes are too big. In some schools there are more than 50 students in one class. The teachers that teach these classes are under trained and not qualified to teach a big number of students. It is harder to keep control of all the students and also harder to answer all questions raised by the students. This makes it harder for the teacher to effectively teach the class. A lot of teachers have outdated knowledge and are not qualified. These students that get these teachers are taught outdated information.

Major problems!

Result

The students do not learn good basic skills like math, writing and reading. Students also score badly in international tests. Their knowledge is not as good as other country’s. Even after college, some graduates lack good skills like math, reading and writing. They also lack critical thinking and problem solving skills. The companies that these people end up working for are suffering because they cannot find good workers. Both the company’s and the society will suffer severely.

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How to Solve the Problems

The Ministry of Education should set standards for teachers. For example, they have to have a teaching degree. They should also increase salaries for the good teachers. The teachers should also learn good teaching techniques and update their knowledge continuously. In schools, students should be encourage to read more. Also, The Ministry of Education should build more schools so the classes can be smaller. They should use the funding wisely, for example, build more libraries, buy more school supplies. In college they need to train the students with better working skills. The Ministry of Education can encourage companies to work with colleges to train the students with the right skills.