INTRODUCTION

Machine Heaven is for anyone seeking to obtain the best from present knowledge about efficient design in their environment. Every aspect of a building affects its performance and so the greatest gains are to be obtained in designs built from scratch but substantial improvements may be obtained in presently constructed buildings. This site will provide tutorials about the most promising methods of efficient design and construction with the lowest energy consumption available. A building should be a machine which engineers the environment for the comfort of all who use it. Water consumption, its use and disposal will be covered including energy recovery from warm water.
Low energy air conditioning (heating or cooling) using ground heat sinks and desiccant refrigerants and thermal heat recovery from exhaust air. Solar energy and wind use. Electric power generation and waste pyrolysis will be covered.
Design and development of building management systems, using local network controllers and the software to provide easy human interfaces. Buildings will automatically learn how occupants live and work within a dwelling and control the environment most efficiently.
Community building projects investigating the gains that may be obtained from group construction making viable waste recovery, water processing and storage using non-polluting technologies.Development of new building techniques which are efficient, suitable for all climatic conditions and can even be assembled and deconstructed for emergency use. Such temporary designs eliminate the need for sand and cement (other than for foundations in longer installations), can easily be assembled on site with unskilled labour force and can make possible clean emergency hospitals, administration buildings all constructed within days.
Futuristic home automation. Development of computerised food machines that prepare and cook meals for you and with automatic raw materials ordering from local supermarkets. Speech recognition for local house control using redundant processor power from local room sensors. Security. Buildings will learn how the occupants live in a building and any perceived foreign activity will set off alarms. (no need to remember to switch alarms on).