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Two New Case Studies

Posted: 30 Apr 2018 05:17 PM PDT
http://www.humanpowerplant.be/2018/05/two-new-case-studies-1.html


The Human Power Plant is a multi-disciplinary research project into the
possibility of sustainable energy production based on human power alone.

In a first case study, we designed plans for the conversion of a 22 floor
tower building into an entirely human powered student community of 750
people, and built a working prototype of a human power plant.

In the coming months, we focus on two other concrete cases in the
Netherlands, aiming to reveal what can be learned from a strictly human
powered perspective.


In our second case study, we turn towards a backbone of the Dutch economy,
the dredging industry. Sustainability is all about cars and smart
appliances, but what about large infrastructure and maintenance works? The
Dutch waterways were dredged by hand for centuries, could it be done again?
Human Powered Health Care

In our third case, we investigate the prospects of a human powered health
care: hospitals, maternities, and nurseries. Medical treatments keep
improving, but they are also based on ever more energy-intensive devices
and procedures. So, in a human powered world, which medical treatments are
possible, and which ones are not? How many newborns will survive?

As a benchmark of sustainability, human power forces us to make clear
choices about what is sustainable and what is not. In the student
community, these choices concern the duration of the showers or the
composition of the diet. In the dredging operations, these choices refer to
the depth of the canals, and the draft of the boats. In a human powered
hospital, these choices are about life and death.
Benchmark of Sustainability

Could we run a modern society on human power alone? It may sound like a
silly question, but it is not. All these years, we have merely been
discussing the benchmarks of sustainability. For example, electric cars,
solar panels, or atomic power plants are considered sustainable according
to some, but unsustainable according to others, leading to endless debates
and a waste of time. To bring the discussion to a higher level, and to
proceed to action, we need a precise benchmark of sustainability. Human
power fits the bill.


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<p><span style=3D"font-size: 13pt;">In a first case study, we designed plan=
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and maintenance works? The Dutch waterways were dredged by hand for centuri=
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<p style=3D"text-align: center;"><span style=3D"font-size: 13pt;"><strong>H=
uman Powered Health Care</strong></span></p>
<p><span style=3D"font-size: 13pt;">In our third case, we investigate the p=
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ies. Medical treatments keep improving, but they are also based on ever mor=
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<p><span style=3D"font-size: 13pt;">As a benchmark of sustainability, human=
 power forces us to make clear choices about what is sustainable and what i=
s not. </span><span style=3D"font-size: 13pt;">In the student community, th=
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iet. </span><span style=3D"font-size: 13pt;">In the dredging operations, th=
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<p style=3D"text-align: center;"><span style=3D"font-size: 13pt;"><strong>B=
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ng the discussion to a higher level, and to proceed to action, we need a pr=
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