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The Metropolitan Jerusalem Master Plan
The Metropolitan Jerusalem Master Plan
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Sustainability in Jerusalem
Progressive Trash Removal
Waste management in the metropolis will be
based on the following principles (in order
of importance): keeping it clean, decreasing
generation of waste, reuse, and recycling. In
practice, this will be expressed by giving up
trash burial almost entirely. Instead, waste
will be sorted into three groups in all homes:
compostable organic waste, paper, and other.
For this purpose, a pneumatic waste removal
system will be built. The pneumatic waste
removal system will work in a manner similar
to the manner in which fluid waste is removed
via the sewage system. In a given building or
group of buildings where a pneumatic waste
disposal system exists, each floor will have
two receptacles – one for wet waste and one
for dry waste. The waste goes through the
openings into a central system common to the
buildings and away from the neighborhood.
Once a week, waste is vacuumed through an
underground pipe leading to the central system
that recognizes the types of waste – wet or
dry – and transports them to the appropriate
treatment pipe, empties them into a container
that compacts it, and separates it from polluted
air. The pneumatic removal method is especially
suitable for historical areas and those areas
where there is tourism within the city, which are
frequently characterized by crowds and narrow
roads – especially historical areas in Jerusalem.
We propose that such a system be installed
throughout Jerusalem - first and foremost, in
historical areas and areas where there is tourism,
and later, throughout the entire city. New
neighborhoods with over 2,500 residential units
will not be allowed to be built without installing
a pneumatic waste removal system.
The pneumatic
removal method is
especially suitable for
historical areas and
those areas where
there is tourism
within the city.
From the house to the waste
removal system. Pneumatic waste
systems like the one in this picture
are especially suitable for use in
ancient, crowded urban areas.
Sustainability in Jerusalem
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Renewable Energies
Today, almost all of the electricity in Israel – including that of metropolitan
Jerusalem – is created at power stations located on the coastal plain. These stations
manufacture electricity by burning coal and gas in a process that pollutes the air.
Over recent years, ways to create electricity known as "renewable energy" have
been developing. These methods are ecologically cleaner, more economical, and
cheap. The Jerusalem 5800 Plan strives to make Jerusalem a progressive city in all
ways and to integrate as many renewable energy technologies as possible, as part of
the obvious way of planning a metropolis.
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Panels for electricity
manufacture
Photovoltaic panels are units
that receive heat from the sun
and sunlight and convert them
into electricity. Today installing
such systems requires convoluted
bureaucracy in terms of planning
vis-à-vis the Israel Electric
Company. We propose that in
the future, the installation of
photovoltaic panels with sealing
sheets over roofs do not require any
authorization. Installation of any
other type of photovoltaic panel for
the manufacture of electricity over
rooftops or windows as shade will
be allowed within the framework of
limited work permits, in expedited
bureaucratic processes.
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Home turbines
Extended areas in metropolitan
Jerusalem, such as Gush Etzion,
Binyamin, and towns on the crest,
get strong winds throughout the
year. In recent years, manufacture
of electricity using wind turbines
has been developing. In the hopes
of encouraging the use of this
technology, installation of home
wind turbines, no larger than 1.1
meters, will be allowed within the
framework of limited work permits.
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Geothermal air
conditioning
Geothermal air conditioning is
passive, natural air conditioning
based on air temperatures in
the ground, which at depths
of 2 meters or more, remain
permanent year-round and are 4
degrees higher than the average
temperature in the region. In
metropolitan Jerusalem, this is
between 20-22 degrees, which
is within the range for thermal
comfort in both winter and
summer. So when an amount of
air equal to the volume of that
in a given structure is pumped
through an underground tunnel,
circulating the air four times an
hour, thermal comfort temperature
can be supplied throughout the
house during all seasons. This
method enables the use of the
earth’s thermal mass in a direct
manner and with almost no energy
loss, and thus, is very effective and
economical. Use of this method
should be encouraged everywhere
possible.
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Electricity manufacture
from waste
In recent years, technologies for
the manufacture of electricity from
waste have been in development.
The goal is to incorporate
metropolitan Jerusalem with
national implementation of this
technology. Waste remaining
after sorting, and waste created
on the streets, will be sent to
compact facilities where electricity
is manufactured therefrom, to
be installed on the streets instead
of trash cans. The goal is to give
up trash cans completely in the
metropolitan Jerusalem region by
the year 2050 and replace them with
facilities for the manufacture of
electricity from waste, which are to
be hooked up to the city’s electricity
system.
Home systems
for manufacturing
electricity from trash