Additional observation

This is a solar panel found outside a factory at Braddell. With a height of roughly 175cm above the ground, the solar panel is placed at about 35 to 45 degrees. We are unsure of what is the solar panel powering, and it was deserted outside the factory as it was a Sunday. However, this thing may look familiar to some of us who have went to Ah Tok's house at Pulau Ubin, which contains battery inside the metal cabin. Nevertheless, it is good to have a solar panel powering something useful. Energy saving hooray!

It was directly outside the main gate of the factory, no trees nearby and good orientation for sunlight.

A blur picture, but we can see that the roof of the building is actually full of grass, which amazed us as we don't see this kind of design often. With a green roof and plants around the building, it helps to cool down the building, which in turn saves electricity as air-conditional usage will be reduced. We believe that this is part of CEM student's ideal house, a house that helps to save energy and environment!

2nd trip to west mall

 

It was a Saturday on our second trip and we decided to go westmall again to take more pictures. We met in school instead of meeting at westmall since our first trip started from school to west mall.

 We alighted at some of the bus stops as we noticed some things deserved to be mentioned.

Firstly, we saw this at bukit timah community club. This green wall  helps to cool down the inner part of the club as it is not an air-conditioned building but an open area building.

 

We also noticed ESSO on our way. We were quite curious to know whether there's any thing at the top of ESSO.

 

So we went up to a nearest building to take a  look and of course. we took pictures of it. We realized that it was empty. We actually thought of putting solar panels at the top. Also, petrol station are usually further away from buildings, probably in case of explosion. We realized that there are lamps around the petrol station with cables linking to one another and we were wondering what if explosion really happens, will the lamps and cables be on fire too? Will the nearby buildings be involved in the fire?

 

When we reached Bukit  Batok interchange, we realized this long shelter isn't blocked by any of the shelters and we could actually place some solar panel on it. Also, during night time, around 7pm until the next morning, the lights for the shelter will be switched on even when there isn't any people. We were suggesting that they could place a  motion sensor.

 

We walked into the mall, and realized that all the lights were switched on (as you can see from the picture above), it was afternoon around 2pm, and the sun was shining so brightly into the mall as the top of the mall is covered with glass.

 

Advertisement boards on every level were also light up.

And usually, there will be rubbish bins at the side of every escalator. However, at Westmall, we couldn't find any. When we want to throw our rubbish, we have to go all the way outside or the elevator.

 

When we went out, we saw a durian stall and there was a lot of light bulbs, more than 10. It was still afternoon around 3pm and all the light bulb was already switched on.

 This is some things we saw during our second trip! :)

Our first Journey: Westmall

Hi there,

            We have started our journey last week, from NP all the way to Westmall and back to school. On the bus, there wasn't many solar panels and other green features that are observable. However, there are many places and spots that are suitable for installation of green technologies. Wouldn't it be great if Singapore is filled with solar panels and all the lightings and other facilities are powered by solar energy? CEM let's go!