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A resident of the village of Banilov, who is in Bukovina, has organized a new business – growing trout. It is interesting that, as a place for the organization of the economy, he chose a landfill. Levon Terteryan is an activist who is not concerned with the protection of nature in a joke.

Levon Terteryan notes that trout breeding is a rather labor-intensive process. Fish of this species require a lot of attention. They feed it 4 times a day (twice in the winter time), constantly calibrated and settled in different tanks, ensuring that there is only running water in the trout. The owner of a private enterprise also drew attention to the fact that domestic food of the proper quality is not present, so they buy it from the French and Polish manufacturers.

The entrepreneur currently breeds 7 varieties of trout. It should be noted that each fish is under the vigilant supervision of a fish farm for more than a year to go on sale. Earlier, Mr. Levon supplied about one hundred tons of trout annually to Ukraine. Now the activist drew special attention to the settlement of this fish surrounding rivers.

The head of the local community notes that the residents of the village are very grateful to the entrepreneur for his activities. Indeed, in our time, you will rarely meet a person who, from his own good impulses, will protect and protect nature, especially on such scale.

Levon Terterian prepares for himself a worthy change – two of his children went by his father and mastered the skill of fish protection activities in the higher educational establishments of Ukraine.

An entrepreneur from Rovno, Stanislav Dubrovsky, put forward the idea of ​​creating vertical eco-farms on abandoned facilities for the purpose of growing vegetable and berry crops.

According to Stanislav Dubrovsky, the idea itself arose after watching a science film about the newest methods of growing vegetable crops.

In vertical eco-farms, vegetable crops will be grow on the principle of hydroponics that is, using mineral nutrient solutions. Thus, plants will receive the right amount of moisture and nutrients that will penetrate into the roots within the controlled process. The technology developed by Dubrovsky allows grow more than fifty vegetables on a much smaller area, and in much shorter periods. It is interesting that at the same time the volume of harvest is much higher than the amount of harvest on traditional farms.

The peculiarity of this eco-farm is that vegetables instead of sunlight will receive light from LEDs and thus it is possible fully control the growth of plants. With a properly calculated level of illumination, plants grow quite rapidly, and due to isolation from the environment, vegetables do not need to be treat with harmful substances, which makes it possible to obtain an environmentally friendly product. It is interesting that due to vertical eco-farms, it is possible to significantly reduce the import of products from other countries to our country and provide the market with own vegetables, of high quality, and grow quality vegetables for imports. Currently, Stanislav Dubrovsky already has enough work and information to start the implementation of the project.

The entrepreneur noted that now it is plan to appeal to the administration of the city of Rivne with a request to allocate the necessary premises for creating vertical closed eco-farms. It is interesting that for the creation of eco-farms suitable premises that do not attract interest from outside investors due to their non-efficiency.

In addition, the “bonus” from the use of eco-farm will be the heat from the lighting system and the oxygen that will produce the plants. Of course, these factors will positively influence the environment. Thus, not only the products will be environmentally friendly, but also the process of obtaining it – we can say that we managed to combine almost incompatible factors and develop the idea of ​​an ecological production of food products.

In addition, the farm does not require additional heating, since LED lamps emit a sufficient amount of heat for a comfortable growth of vegetable crops. The lighting costs account for 85% of the technological costs that the project requires.

Moreover, the more automation of production – the less the price for vegetables will be. For example, the cost price of lettuce is about two hryvnia, or even lower. In addition, we should not forget that this would be an environmentally friendly product. Therefore, vegetables grown on eco-farms can become serious competitors to vegetables grown on standard farms. For a full return of investment, according to entrepreneur Stanislav Dubrovsky, it will take about four to five years to use a vertical eco-farm.

In Zhytomyr, an interesting project was launched – they started using ecological “currency”. An app on the mobile device platform is created. He received the name “climatic drops”. The bottom line is that the application gives people a reward for protecting the environment.

One kilogram of harmful greenhouse gas emissions is СО2, according to the project rules, one climatic drop that has not got into the environment. Thanks to the launched project, each of its participants prevents more than 500 such climatic droplets from entering the atmosphere.

Creating climate drops is an opportunity not only for individuals. Legal entities can also take part in the project.

On November 28, employees of the Education Department of the Department of Economic Development of the City Council of Zhytomyr issued a climate drops award to representatives of nearly three dozen schools for their significant contribution to environmental protection and the prevention of the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

The project operates as follows: actions contributing to environmental protection are tracked and awarded with points that can then be exchanged for bonuses, discounts and other enjoyable gifts in the network of project partners. The partners of the project are the Mandry Cafe, its Something Restaurant, and the windows and doors salon Okean.

The ecological currency is generated by saving energy consumption, as opposed to digital, whose production requires energy. For example, if you use a bicycle instead of a dangerous environment for transport, you can earn daily climatic drops on a cup of coffee or a cake in the cafe and thus combine the pleasures with the benefits – to reduce greenhouse emissions and have a delicious breakfast. And if you replace a light bulb with a light emitting diode that will save energy efficiently, you can earn climatic drops that will be enough for a discount when purchasing windows or plumbing.

This project operates thanks to the blockade and uses the Microsoft Azure servers. To participate in an environmental project and earn climatic drops, you need to install an application, register, and start contributing to environmental protection. According to calculations, next year the number of “green” participants will reach 100 thousand people, and the volume of environmental currency will be fifty million. This will mean that the amount of greenhouse gas emissions is reduced by fifty thousand tons.

The curators of the eco-project call on all those who are not concerned with the issue of environmental protection, as well as all ecologically conscious people, and enterprises of the city of Zhytomyr to cooperate and expand the program of loyalty.

Lviv enterprise uses a complex of cleaning equipment, which uses biological methods of water purification. There are no analogues in Western Ukraine. This allows replacing more than seventy percent of the fuel needs of biogas from its own production. Biogas is produce thanks to the latest wastewater treatment technologies. In the near future, a full transition of the company to its own fuel is plan.

At the Lviv enterprise, we are convinced that investing in the environment, in particular, in this project, can be quite economically advantageous, and will allow not only to save, but also to reduce the negative impact of enterprises on the environment. Even at the beginning of two thousand years, the company began construction of modern treatment facilities, which in a few years allowed saving a lion’s share of the cost of blue fuel. Given that the cost of blue fuel remains relevant for many businesses – the investment in this project was very promising.

The cleaning facilities at the enterprise allow producing about seven thousand cubic meters of biogas per day, which allows replacing more than two thirds of the blue fuel needed for a full-fledged operation of the company. Thus, the company consumes considerably less of the blue fuel, and uses its own source of energy – this allows a fair amount of savings. There is also a cogeneration plant on the territory of the enterprise. When the volumes of own fuel will allow the company to provide an energy of one hundred percent – the management plans to use biogas for electricity.

The whole project cost more than eleven million euros, but savings from own fuel can be much higher. Therefore, next year it is plan to invest more than a million euros in the modernization of the refining equipment.

Interestingly, the complex includes aerobic and anaerobic stages of water purification. We can say that on a scale, this is another plant in the enterprise

With increasing tariffs for housing and communal services, each owner of a private home is thinking about saving. In our country this became a general trend a few years ago, and, for example, in Poland it has been relevant for more than fifteen years – the mass phenomenon in the country has become the application of energy saving, installation of modern double-glazed windows and insulation of houses with the active support of the state.

He and his associates since the beginning of the 90s began to embody the experience of energy conservation – three families sold their apartments and bought a large house in Trisvyatsky settlement. One of them was Victoria, who lived in Warsaw for a long time and helped translate Polish energy-saving technologies. The general rule for them was the principle of maintaining the heat and using exactly the amount that is need for each of them. “This is important not only in terms of cost savings, but also because everyone should consume exactly as much as he can afford,” Victoria says.

What steps helped to achieve such an effect?

First, the installation of solar collectors. As Yuriy said, due to them, they manage to save about fifty cubic meters of gas each month – the energy goes to the heating of water, and the total savings in the season is about 2 000 UAH. On sunny days, the collector heats up to 150 liters of water to 50-60 degrees. If the day is not sunny enough and the temperature of the water does not reach the desired mark – the water is digest in the second circuit by an electric boiler.

Secondly, the installation of energy-saving windows – windows are two-chamber, energy saving, at least three glasses with a distance of not less than 32 mm between them. The space between the glasses is not fill with ordinary air, but with gas argon, which reduces heat loss by 40% and increases the temperature in the rooms by an average of 2-3 degrees. The minimum heat resistance of such windows should be greater than the standard values ​​of 0.60-0.75 m² / W. Existing tariffs allow you to full redeem the installation of such double-glazed windows for 4-7 years. “There were a lot of large and beautiful windows in our house that were not suitable for our climate and through which we lost a lot of heat,” explains Yuri.

Thirdly, installing a solid-fuel boiler – gutted stacks of firewood are carefully stored under the house. The boiler consumes firewood and saves natural gas and does not change the overall energy balance in nature – burning out, the tree allocates just as much carbon as it consumed throughout its life.

In the fourth, insulation of the house. The thick walls have an additional outer layer of foam, which effectively retains heat inside the house. All doors are externally equipped with vestibules.

The system of heat recovery is an energy-saving technology that selects the heat of used air from rooms, bathrooms, etc. and transfers it to fresh air coming from the street. Such fresh air is distribute throughout the rooms and used as heating.

It should be note that Yuri willingly shares his own experience – many people go to him and ask to tell and show his belongings. He is convinced that in a few years such eco-homes will be in Ukraine the same norm as in Europe.

Investors from Turkey intend to install in the Transcarpathian fifty windmills. A power plant with windmills, having a total capacity of more than 100 MW, will be build within the Savelovsky and Volovets districts

According to Volovetsky head, Ivan Lopita, Turkish investors have already drawn up an estimate for sixteen plots. According to the plan, electricity will be supply to the Volovets substation. For comfortable operation, the Turkish firm also has plans to build a road to the station. According to the plan, the construction of an ecological power station with windmills will be complete in two years. The windmills will be one hundred and twenty meters high and will be located at a distance of 500 meters from each other.

According to the head of this project for each turbine will need half a hectare of area. Now, Turkish investors have already installed sleepers over seventy meters high on the city of Playa, which be used to determine the speed and direction of movement of air masses. This is necessary for the maximum correct design of windmills at the power plant.

In general, the amount of investments of the Turkish company is more than one hundred million US dollars.

The Turkish company signed a memorandum with the regional administration, which states that Turkish investors will create jobs, conduct research work on the impact of windmills on the environment and the local population. Therefore, experts will establish how a wind station can affect the fauna of this region, in particular the movement of migratory birds. A study will also be conduct on how the wind station will affect the terrain. Such in-depth research is carry out not only for the sake of scientific interests (environmental protection) and for the sake of taking into account the interests of the local population – this is one of the conditions of the European Bank that provides loans to Turkish investors.

For the construction of a power plant with air power plants, an international company with a strong reputation will be chose to ensure that there is no harm, or at least a minimal impact of the power plant on the environment. In addition, the interests of the steam-planners will be take into account, so that the windmills do not interfere with their flights. It is interesting that investors plan to make observation platforms on air power installations for tourists.

Polonina Borzhava is a mountainous Carpathian massif, popular among tourists and travelers, so the installation of air power plants should be plan in such a way as not to be an obstacle for tourists.

The city water polo of Poltava began work on the construction of a micro-hydroelectric power station at the Supruniv water treatment plant.

The technologists have calculated that due to the location features of the station, the water purifying the station can move the turbine, which will rotate the generator generating electricity. According to technologists, over a day through such a turbine will pass more than forty thousand cubic meters of water and this will allow producing more than 3,000 kilowatt-hours per day.

The development of this project began in the distant 2014. The investor in this project was the Limited Liability Company Hydropower, which although has experience in developing projects in this area, and such a project has no analogues in the country.

Now, at the Suprunivskaya station there is a boom in the construction of hydrotechnical equipment and communications.

The beginning of the operation of the micro-hydroelectric power plant is schedule for the spring of 2018. Approximately the construction will be complete in the winter of this year, and next year the micro-hydroelectric power plant will be launch. In addition, during the construction of the facility, it is plan to install modern pipelines, which will improve the quality of the station’s work.

Interestingly, biogas in Europe receives a large amount of electric as well as thermal energy, with the percentage of such energy received from gas can be up to 70% of the needs of the treatment plant itself, and the remainder is send to the heating of adjacent homes. In addition, the precipitate of purified water is a valuable agricultural product – nitrogen-phosphorus fertilizer.

Over the present time, the Vodokanal of the city of Poltava is engaged in the search for investors to implement a long-term project to install devices for fermentation of organic residues and biogas production. In 2008, the Poltava Water Utility Technologies were the first in Ukraine to install special pumps at the Zuturinskoe sewage plant with a function of heat recovery from sewage, the temperature of which is quite high even in the cold season – about 12 degrees above zero. Heat, obtained because of the above-mentioned pumps, manages to heat the premises of the station, the total area of ​​which is almost one and a half thousand square meters. Thus, the waste water of the Zuturinsky treatment plant became a source of heat supply and allowed to save on the consumption of natural gas at the treatment plant, and moreover, to ensure the heating of adjacent buildings.

A resident of the city of Vinnitsa, Olga Yavorskaya, who is a graduate student of a technical university, presented a new interesting idea of ​​using modern technologies for cleaning various solid household waste when she spoke at the IWWG.

The Sixteenth International Symposium, which was hell in Italy at the resort of Santa Margherita di Pula, recognized the invention as promising. This largest event of the year was the main theme of waste disposal in the world. During the symposium, Vinnichanka presented an entirely new concept to the International Working Group on Waste Management.

Olga Yavorskaya conducted her own research in Vinnitsa, where she studied how often people throw solid household waste, and what they throw out.

One of the sections of the symposium “Sardinia-2017” was devoted to presentations of promising start-ups, whose activities were relate to waste management. Olga was delighted to present her startup on the use of quadrocopters among high-ranking scientists. She was immediately invite to join the International Working Group and to speak next year.

The main idea of ​​the startup was to reduce the amount of solid household waste by flying quad squats. Partly replacing old garbage collection machines with flying machines has become an innovation in the field of garbage collection. This project will save fuel used by garbage trucks. Due to the fact that electric quadrupters, they only need to be charge with electricity, which is much more effective in the use of natural resources.

Olga Yanovskaya suggested leaving the garbage trucks to drive along the main streets of the private sector, but on other streets, the quad copter should fly and take the garbage in the bags, bringing it to the car.

This project will not only effectively get rid of debris, but also reduce the amount of emissions into the atmosphere from the garbage truck. Harmful emissions known to have a negative impact on the health of every person. So the project will not only get rid of solid household waste, but also reduce gaseous emissions.

The new concept is to save money on the fuel of garbage trucks and reduce harmful emissions into the atmosphere, that is, the cost of garbage disposal for people can decrease several times.

Thesis project, as Olga Yavorskaya says, scientists are interested in and are ready to support a startup on the use of quadrocopters in small towns.

In another section of the symposium, the Ukrainian presented a stand at which factors affecting the amount of waste were consider. In detail, it is analyzed which waste is thrown out by the inhabitants and or sorted by them, the segment of the society does this more often and much more. Data for the presentation Olga Yanovskaya collected a whole year before presenting it to the honorable audience.

The researcher does not stop there and plans a new project at the Department of Construction, Municipal Economy and Architecture of the Vinnytsia National University with its head Igor Dudar, in which he studies how to properly organize special places for solid household waste, and how to organize the garbage disposal to the disposal sites, taking into account many factors. The main goal is to minimize costs and maximize profits.

With increasing tariffs for housing and communal services, each owner of a private home is thinking about saving. In our country this became a general trend a few years ago, and, for example, in Poland it has been relevant for more than fifteen years – the mass phenomenon in the country has become the application of energy saving, installation of modern double-glazed windows and insulation of houses with the active support of the state.

He and his associates since the beginning of the 90s began to embody the experience of energy conservation – three families sold their apartments and bought a large house in Trisvyatsky settlement. One of them was Victoria, who lived in Warsaw for a long time and helped translate Polish energy-saving technologies. The general rule for them was the principle of maintaining the heat and using exactly the amount that is need for each of them. “This is important not only in terms of cost savings, but also because everyone should consume exactly as much as he can afford,” Victoria says.

What steps helped to achieve such an effect?

First, the installation of solar collectors. As Yuriy said, due to them, they manage to save about fifty cubic meters of gas each month – the energy goes to the heating of water, and the total savings in the season is about 2 000 UAH. On sunny days, the collector heats up to 150 liters of water to 50-60 degrees. If the day is not sunny enough and the temperature of the water does not reach the desired mark – the water is digest in the second circuit by an electric boiler.

Secondly, the installation of energy-saving windows – windows are two-chamber, energy saving, at least three glasses with a distance of not less than 32 mm between them. The space between the glasses is not fill with ordinary air, but with gas argon, which reduces heat loss by 40% and increases the temperature in the rooms by an average of 2-3 degrees. The minimum heat resistance of such windows should be greater than the standard values ​​of 0.60-0.75 m² / W. Existing tariffs allow you to full redeem the installation of such double-glazed windows for 4-7 years. “There were a lot of large and beautiful windows in our house that were not suitable for our climate and through which we lost a lot of heat,” explains Yuri.

In the fourth, insulation of the house. The thick walls have an additional outer layer of foam, which effectively retains heat inside the house. All doors are externally equipped with vestibules.

In addition, Yuri has many plans, including installing a heat recovery system and an air solar collector. This collector does not heat water, and the air – in the off-season, when the sunny days is kept; the heated air is distributed over the rooms and warms up the house.

The system of heat recovery is an energy-saving technology that selects the heat of used air from rooms, bathrooms, etc. and transfers it to fresh air coming from the street. Such fresh air is distribute throughout the rooms and used as heating.

It should be note that Yuri willingly shares his own experience – many people go to him and ask to tell and show his belongings. He is convinced that in a few years such eco-homes will be in Ukraine the same norm as in Europe.