Surrounding and interlaced with New Green City are the ‘hubs’ of new residential communities. From hubs for people that favor futuristic domes and modernistic abodes with geometric flare, to folks who prefer the quaint country comfort of historically inspired homes.

Herbert K. Lau

Each hub supports ‘wheels’ of up to 16 homes, allowing each home a large backyard and that cul-de-sac feel. Each wheel has 4 avenues to enter and exit, one to the ‘Hub Heart’, one to a major thoroughfare outside the hub, and two for connecting to the wheels on either side.

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Strategically located between each wheel are raingardens, artificial depressions in the landscape that collects and stores storm water runoff preventing flooding and erosion. Raingardens slow run-off and allows the water to soak into the ground, where the water filters through soil layers before entering the groundwater system. Planted with native vegetation that is hardy and attractive and gives color to the landscape at all times of the year. The plants are a selection of wetland edge vegetation, such as wildflowers, sedges (any of numerous grass-like plants), rushes, ferns, shrubs and small trees, all taking up excess water flowing into the raingarden. Root systems enhance infiltration, moisture redistribution, and diverse microbial populations involved in biofiltration. (more…)

To quench your information thirst, here is an update to Solar Roadways project along with their getting more funding !

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New Green City … as the green future unfolds.

New Green City: Up From The Green Surface

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The entire fleet of New Green City’s heavy-duty maintenance vehicles are hybrid electric/biodiesel and all standard transport vehicles are full electric. One of the avenues to keeping these electric vehicles (EVs) fully charged at all times is HaloIPT , a wireless inductive power transfer system.

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Power from the Solar Roadway panels and/or the grid flows into the power supply unit where the now conditioned power is sent to the surface level transmitter pad. As an EV parks or drives over the transmitter pad, it wirelessly transfers energy to the vehicle’s receiver pad (mounted underneath the vehicle), from there to the battery, where recharging is immediate, robust and reliable.

Wireless power is harmless to humans and animals and there is no danger of electric shock. Double isolated and with no cord, no exposed contacts, no moving parts and a magnetic transfer of power, the IPT wireless charging system creates a truly safe environment. The simplicity of no moving parts or live contacts, means wear-and-tear is negligible and mechanisms don’t break. Safely concealed in a weatherproof, tamper-proof and crash-proof housing so it will last.

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