are set to choose their new constitution potentially ending point decades of one party rule referendum comes amid ongoing violence with your position going to boycott the ballot. sixteen u.s. intelligence agencies agree there is no evidence tehran is building nuclear weapons but israel increases the pressure of continued threats of a military strike despite calls from washington and london to new sanctions more time to work. and the eurozone tightens its belt greece is on the brink of collapse proves that you bailed out at the cost of a massive new wave of cuts for students in spain lashing out against their own lack of funding. now if you think your home has all the latest gadgets think again as r t shows you the very latest techie stuff in technology update.

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 it takes 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 econ 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 well it may not grab all the headlines construction materials made from 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. 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 nine hundred 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 fiver. it's 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 the production of these fibers is on the rise. of 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.

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but at the same time constraints in terms of alice to city. 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 crazing method. burrow into the. little nooks and crannies. to give their insulation additional properties depending on what they choose they can embed 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 burnt. insulation isn't the only thing the company's been working on under development but they could soon come

out with an insulating material from plastic that can transmit electric signals which can totally revolutionize the way houses are wired 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 which you may recall from a previous technology program. for a while since that time we caught up with them at their headquarters. to see what. the main breakthrough from these tireless innovators is their new and improved. printers. over traditional power printing operations instead of gobbling up thirty kilowatts and these diodes only use about as much as an ordinary tea kettle. we were the first in the world to use light emitting diodes to solidify nk

. 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. from their competitors massive improvements like instant drying. to practically anything in your home and here in their labs also been working on a wide range of other. they can be used to print circuit boards and. panels. and most importantly even the first. infusion of particles as well as 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 print even. as a result of the. innovation has come out with the. hybrid in the race to be the quickest. of the company. images being applied. often the case the. extra boost there probably title to try printer. both. quality and high speed and that's given these innovators something to brag about. this will be the first which we'll be able to predict with such high speed using. first presented at the group of print media fair in dusseldorf 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 the. fast you might be asking to the time trials the latest from sun innovations kill. 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 so 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 all the 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. we try 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 the frame for saw the 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. but 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 russian winters and the plus

thirty degree celsius weather in the summer especially as construction has 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 most 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 thermal bridges can form so the wall is impermeable. this but it's

this is an actual size sample of the wall. we can see how the house was built thanks to this specific wall construction of the house is three times more energy efficient than our technical standards require that 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 the 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 to the heart of the system is a ground source heat pump that delivers natural to a cold with the refrigerator which turns it into a vapor that's been 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 turns to liquid form at this point the process starts all over again all this follows the principles of carlos cycle which describes the maximum official sea of thermodynamics systems 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 pump 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 too 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. doesn't. collect still takes care of heating and air conditioning. just like some a time. but all this hasn't come cheap especially given the complex engineering decisions required during the planning process but beyond that direct construction costs ate up the lion's share of the budget coming in at well over half a million throw in 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 as more of these homes get built the price should fall making them more affordable for the average home buyer but 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 you can turn your simple abode into a high tech habitat. 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 with a little spare cash. into an automated sanctuary but it's not just increased comfort that home automation offers thinks the system integrators like a luxury system. an 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 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 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. that is also compatible with mac products such as the i pad an i phone as well as the android platform. in other words there are practically no limits for it. interfaces and controls are pleasing on the eye to be useless without this of wires there'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 poor 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 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. cross' 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 take for example this control made by zero one so that it is designed for automating moderately complex units 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 preens told imbedded linux core. which gives us a more up to date programming environment that's 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 bits will need to do with mine 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. before. a long running debate. good bye. to the. happiness and tragedy. devotion. and beatrice. family. and does a link. on the bottom of a swath of.

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