syria a group of nations sparks controversy with their motives for the gathering in tunisia cites body aid to the bodies torn country that's reports emerged that washington is in talks with the u.k. france italy and turkey preparations for military intervention. a media war on iran is gathering pace in the us that has to be having an impact or if the latest opinion poll that it suggests a third of americans now see the islamic republic as the nation's biggest enemy with many hoff supporting military action against iran. and plan to be russia's next president has been capturing the imagination of british office and filmmakers less than a fortnight before russians head to the polls a book on print and personality is due to hit british bookshops on the heels of two documentaries featuring the russian president's. next we explore ambitious building projects that involve cutting edge technology and innovations.

hello and welcome to technology update this month we're taking a look at a topic that hits well close to home in russia many innovations in terms of new building materials have come from the countries tiny now know that an exhibition in moscow recently the company showed off its latest offerings from its aptly named nano house. here you can find many of the newest developments all containing you guessed it the prefix nano the state owned company has selected a number of projects that things have the best potential to revolutionize homebuilding in the future you know all of the ideas to make we reside more livable but the overriding theme definitely seems to be energy efficiency which will

benefit not only the individual homeowners but the whole earth as well you know this is just a simple exhibition but it design and consulting firm e-com has planned a full scale model complete with all the high tech developments. that will eventually get built in russia's republic some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow while it may not grab all the headlines construction materials made from basil will create the base for everything else in the house. it could find its way into more and more homes in the future but is nothing new to russian scientists the volcanic rock that comes from the hot magma at the center of the earth is one of the more common resources on the planet as a result. has been on the radar of people in moscow for more than fifty years. specialists went to. continuous find.

this work began at the end of the ninety. his research is that the glass fiber institute got the first positive results at the beginning of the one nine hundred fifty s. on the basis of which they wrote the first reports. in one thousand fifty four that was the first magazine article on the topic it's appears in the glossy magazine. specialist recognise the role of the soviet union in this research looking at every relevant characteristic based five or perform steel is significantly stronger and more flexible which is obvious advantages in construction it's also lighter so transporting it is easier and more economical additionally it doesn't degrade when exposed to the elements taken together it's no wonder production of these fibers is on the rise to start with. one thousand five hundred degrees as the. agent is applied and the filaments are

stretched out and eventually due to the fact that are made from a single raw material they're significantly easier to produce than others. different. so. you can make a lot of stuff. more energy. but to get those compound materials the fibers have to be reworked or treated first. starts with. the racks. can be combined with additional mixtures they give the fiber desired properties like enhanced. and fire resistance even though the resin makes up only

a small fraction of the composition particles can increase. even though they were. the only ones that. production of it. they can be used to make concrete structures. and even. futuristic. energy efficient. thirty percent of your homes energy. improvements technology.

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this project. to production. some of these windows are designed to improve the energy efficiency. might expect. a byproduct of. chucked out by the boat. in the recycling. hundred fifty degree.

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characteristics. according to its parameters in terms of. water retention and. design of the same or even superior to similar insulation made from basalt. gloss or. at the same time constraints in terms of alice to city. dust formation. a most better than anything else on the market today. now what's responsible for the improved performance is what you see. by something called the crazy. little nooks and crannies. to give their insulation additional properties depending on what they choose they can invent a whole host of different characteristics at a fraction of the price at which other competitors have been able to do.

these made from plastic or non irritating to work with. the traditional insulation isn't the only thing the company's been working on under development but they could soon come out with insulating material from plastic that can transmit electric signals which could totally revolutionize the way. moving from the stuff that's behind the walls to what's inside them another project that's found its place in the nano house gives you more freedom than ever before now you can take your favorite painting or picture and apply it to just about any surface you can imagine the company behind this innovation you may recall from a previous technology program over the. time we caught up with them at their headquarters. to. breakthrough from the tireless innovators is their new and improved. printers.

over traditional power project operations instead of gobbling up thirty kilowatts and. about as much as. we were the first in the world to use light emitting diodes to solidify ink. this technology saves energy prevents materials from overheating and there is no ozone in the process. printers are really only one part of the story. they might not stand out from their competitors massive improvements like instant. bring light to practically anything in your home and here in their labs been working on a wide range of other like metallic they can be used to print circuit boards and. panels. and most importantly even the first.

infusion of particles as was a new type of fluorescent dye they can help in the fight against counterfeiters. our company has developed all the electronic equipment for it so we're constantly modifying it grading it making it even. as a result of the. innovations that's come out with the. hybrid in the race to be the quickest. of the company. printer head. images being applied. often the case. trying to. boost their program title determine printer. quality and high speed and that's given these innovators something to brag about.

this will be the first print which will be able to print with such high speed using . the group of print media. which will be held in may the third through sixteen this exhibit takes place every four years. from the printing world and will be presenting there. just how fast you might be asking. the time trials the latest from sun innovations killed. around one hundred twenty square meters of every hour on average but it's not just the speed that this russian company apart it's a versatility unlike others there hybrid can handle anything up to two hundred millimeters thick that means it can put your desired image on any surface around your home. but now isn't the only word on people's lips these days there's another high profile project highlighting that the latest building trends have arrived in russia the brainchild of a danish company feliks this so-called active house is only one of

a handful in the world its goal is to balance between energy savings and healthy indoor climate are some of the technologies incorporated have yet to be tested in an environment like russia so with a mind to monitoring just how everything holds up a young family moved in last december to act as the homes guinea pigs building stats will be closely measured you can even check them online to see just how much energy things like the solar panels are collecting. trying to draw on the long history of wood construction and took maximum advantage of the new possibilities offered by the latest technologies by a so the whole house is made out of wood frame for solid sand roof. one of the objectives was to let as much sunlight in as possible so every room is ten times more than it is generally required. even now with all this snow

outside if you go inside you will see there's a lot of light. given the extreme cold of rushing the winters in the plus thirty degree celsius weather the summer especially construction have to be found. here at their design bureau in moscow architects and engineers work together to find a way to minimize heat losses from the building it's. sometimes overlooked in the hunt for increasing energy efficiency so-called thermal bridges can result in serious heat loss to combat that they came up with a new interesting solution. in the. house must be energy efficient we calculated that the walls had to be very thick and required a lot of insulation insulation layers are ranged in criss cross pattern. you can see here on the blueprint that none of the pieces line up and therefore no

direct term bridges can form so the wall is impermeable. this but it's this is an actual size sample of the wall. here we can see how the house was built thanks to this specific wall construction the house is three times more energy efficient than our technical standards require. the wars in terms of insulation we were able to make more homogeneous. thermal bridges are a lot longer now if you. try to travel from the cold exterior to the warm. it has to overcome a lot of obstacles on its way because of the design of the frame. with these walls in the winter you can keep the whole house warm enough with just

a fireplace even in minus thirty degree weather. but this is more than just a passive house it takes the fight for energy efficiency right to the environment itself with the help of a host of intelligent components it automatically regulates several systems to maximize energy savings and comfort and by using the earth as a heat source in the winter and a heat sink in the summer homes geothermal pumps generate all the heating it's needed. the girl is in the weather above a few meters below the temperature remains stable. and geothermal pumps can harness this resource of potential energy to cover the majority of our needs for the heart of this system is a ground source heat pump that delivers natural to a cold with the refrigerator which turns it into a vapor that's then pressurized and further heated up in a compressor that in turn is used to power central heating and hot water systems as it loses its latent heat the vapor returns to

a liquid form and at this point the process starts all over again all this follows the principles of car no cycle which describes the maximum official seat of a thermodynamic system this principle has been around for more than a century but thanks to modern advances it can be applied to our everyday needs. with this house we are testing the newest technologies to see how they will work in our climate we are especially interested in testing this heat in real world conditions we also want to find out how much electricity the house will consume we will compare the results to the hypothetical figures that came up with during the planning phase we'll see. the good news is that despite a pretty bitter cold snap in february the test family made it through completely unscathed in addition to the generally good atmosphere the house has created the ground source pumps provided more than enough heat to keep them and all their little ones nice and toasty and that's certainly no small feat considering the

spacious interior and high high ceilings of the building. it's always. and if the temperature does show up one can adjust it manually this heat pump unit is powerful enough to keep the space and. just everywhere and down. and as far as i understand it in county whether the cellar. tunnel doesn't. connect us still takes care of heating and air conditioning. just like summer time. but all this hasn't come cheap especially given the complex engineering decisions required during the planning process but beyond that directs construction costs and up the lion's share of the budget coming in at well over half a million thrown electricity the very latest in home automation as well as the finishing touches both inside and out and the total cost of the loops is active

house top of cool one million dollars however as more of these homes get built the price should fall making them more affordable for the average home buyer where you don't have to build a fancy house out in the suburbs and take advantage of the latest breakthroughs are home optimization even in the humblest of settings and you can turn your simple abode into a high tech habitat. like and electronic. the past such so-called smart homes were nothing more than a fantasy for everyone other than the super rich but on the back of advances in microelectronics and computing capabilities homeowners are the little spare cash in their nest into an automated sanctuary but it's not just increased comfort that home automation offers thanks to systems integrators like luxury systems and optimized house can save homeowners hundreds of dollars a month electricity heating and water alone while there are plenty of software

options out there on the market this integrator has found one russian company. whose product this is way ahead of the competition the advantage over similar products made in the west is that this program can be integrated was virtually any automation system it's flexible enough to support old them and it also gives the installers the tools to customize the user interface to conveniently control all. sorts of equipment from one page. this eliminates the task of having to map two different systems. another advantage is that this program can be installed in virtually any mobile device as well as on p.c.'s featuring the traditional windows software. and is also compatible with mac products such as the i pad and i phone as well as the android platform. in other words there are practically no limits for its. interfaces and. pleasing on the eye they'd be useless without this

of wires here's a russian made controller system gives the owner peace of mind no matter what happens. because unlike other home automation systems this one developed and produced by a company called has a foolproof plan they give additional protection in the case of any kind of power outage or emergency situation such backups are necessary for industrial customers who form the backbone of the company's clients large scale manufacturers have been exploiting know how for decades as home automation has caught on in russia they started adapting their products to work on small scale projects like in an individual house or apartment in doing so the transfer their treasure trove of knowledge and experience in the industrial sphere and apply it to the little guy because their hardware was originally designed to handle massive highly complex tasks the controllers they make for homes have significant spare capacity and

capability fortunately for the developers and tweaking the dispatch controllers for the home doesn't require that much additional work. since we already have experience. we simply take advantage of what we can already do and just use it in completing orders for private homes naturally all equipment passes all the same checks since testing is a mandatory part of the production. another important factor is ensuring that the required quality standards ordered her to throughout the process which are also monitored and maintained by the means of tests but to make their products ideal for home automation additional threats have to be considered here olwen technicians are making sure their adapted products won't be negatively affected by electromagnetic fields which are far more likely to cause some kind of problem that home than at a big factory such detailed considerations make life for system integrators a whole lot easier. but steak for example but in this

control made by zero one so it is designed for automating moderately complex units but what i find convenient about it is that whenever it's necessary to replace this controller we do not have to detach all these wise it's simply not to remove the top and bottom panels and replace them. features a preening stoled imbedded linux core. which gives us a more up to date programming environment allows one to create multi controller projects. there is more that we can assemble the target control of from just the modules that will eventually be required for this system so we simply extend the main one was all the additional dates will meet with one but here on the programming level this enables us to cluster the modules which means that all

functions of any failed control can be taken over by another still oprah bill one well that will do for this edition of technology update hopefully some of the innovations you see will help make your home truly your castle we'll see you next time and until then enjoy the ride. away from a doctor they. activate. goodbye. culture is that so much i can get for you a lot harder for most of your self-worth to some even new boss same as the old boss this could very well describe what is happening in yemen after an uncontested presidential election what does the future.

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