welcome back today's news under review of the week on r.t. people in the water in syria choosing their new constitution to intentionally end five decades of one party rule referendum comes amid ongoing violence position trying to boycott the ballots. sixteen u.s. intelligence agencies agree there is no evidence turnarounds building nuclear weapons but israel increases the pressure the continued threats of which to strike its phone calls from washington and london to allow new sanctions time to work.

and the eurozone tightens its belt greece is saved from the brink of collapse that even approves the new bailout of the cost of a massive new wave of cuts all students in spain lash out against their own lack of funding. now the very latest in gadgets and gizmos for the home it's 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 country's tiny tech leader. and at 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 will 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 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 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 go through 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 its appears in the. magazine. specialist recognize 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 filler 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 first. starts with.

the racks. can be combined with additional mixtures of the fiber desired properties. and fire resistance even though the resin makes up only a small fraction of the composite particles can increase. they were. the only. real production of it. they can be used to make concrete structures. to make.

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it was a type of. a dual role they give the fibers. as well as makes it more difficult for the fibers to break for the production at this stage the long strands of gathered fiber. over the course of this long line. and have. several times. during this whole process there's a bit of a novelty that takes place. apart from many others. passed through one of the liquid certain chemicals are used to create microscopic crazes that's present

on the. production line. five hundred tons of fiber every month. we managed to get thermal insulation material. which the cooling to its characteristics according to its parameters in terms of. water retention and vapor permeability design of the same or even superior to similar insulation made from basalt. falling to gloss or. at the same time constraints in terms of ella's to city. dust formation and safety. anything else on the market today. now with the improved performance is what you see. by something called the

crazing. burrow into. these 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 been able to do. these made from plastic irritating to work with. 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 can 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. you may recall from

a previous technology program over the. time at their headquarters. the main break through from the innovators is their new and improved. printers. over traditional power printing operations instead of gobbling up thirty kilowatts and. only 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 drying. bring light to practically anything in your home and here in their labs

also 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 well as a new type of fluorescent dye i think and 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. innovation has come out with the. hybrid in the race to be the quickest. give the company. the white printer head. the images being applied. often the case the.

extra boost they're probably titled to try printer. 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. 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 into 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 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 called 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. trying to draw on the long history of wood construction and took maximum advantage of the new possibilities offered by the latest technologies by at them so the whole house is

made out of wood the frame for saw the sand roof. of. 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 and that 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 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

most be energy efficient we calculated that the walls had to be very thick and required a lot of insulation insulation layers are arranged in criss cross pattern. you can see here on the blueprint that none of the pieces line up with therefore no direct thermal bridges can form so the wall is impermeable. this but it's like if 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 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 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 free source of potential energy to cover the majority of our needs for the

heart of the system is a ground source heat pump that delivers natural cold liquid refrigerator which turns it into a vapor doesn't pressurize 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 returns to liquid form at this point the process starts all over again all this follows the principles of carlos cycle which describes the maximum efficiency of a thermodynamics 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 it will compare the results to the hypothetical figures that came up with during the

planning phase will 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 college. 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 directs 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 his act of 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 you can turn your simple abode into a high tech habitat. 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 luxury. and optimized house can save homeowners hundreds of dollars a month on the electricity heating and water alone there are plenty of options out there on the market in the greater 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. 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 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 they've been able to 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 relevant 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 a hero in 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. it features a preening stold imbeds of linux. which gives us a more up to date programming environment that's allows one to create multi controller projects. that. we can assemble the target controller 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 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 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 will see you next time and. enjoy the ride. away from a doctor they. will be quite. a long running debate. again by. keeping.

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