Starbase " Waalitj". ( Wedge tailed eagle ) Environmental Technology Centre.
North face of office block with mimimal solar aperture, thus reducing internal glare . Winter heating is provided by pumping hot air from behind the roof integrated Uni-Solar power modules, down into the office area. The meteorite shield thus provides three functions, power generation, heating, and protection from high velocity particles.
Commissioned July 2001. United Nations Research and Co-operations centre for the Asia -Pacific region.
Location : Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. lat 32 deg South.
- The outer walls of Starbase " WaalitJ " are formed of rammed earth, providing thermal overinertia around the enclosed temporal reality.
- The starbase is comprised three separate buildings, the wet and dry permaculture
laboratories and administration block, for the dedicated crew of research scientists. Their mission, to design and perfect the ideal "Self Sustaining Entity" for use on Earth and Mar's.
- Self Sustaining Entity's are micro eco-systems, that provide energy, food, water and air with zero, or positive environmental impact. The Environmental Technology Centre
is thus dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of renewable energy and permaculture technologies, with the aim of assisting the globally disadvantaged, by way of sustainable buildings, energy and food crops !
- The meteorite shields of the wet lab and the administration block face North, and consist of a total of 48 x UNI-SOLAR SSR-64J advanced, amorphous silicon, triple junction, roof integrated, photo-voltaic power modules. They are arranged in 8 parallel sub-arrays of 6 modules in series, delivering 3072 peak watts, which is fed into the university's ring mains by a Solar Energy Australia
- SEAG-110-4K0 Novastar grid feed, interactive inverter.
- Average daily energy production ranges from a high of 20,000 watt-hours in Summer, dropping to a low of 13,000 watt-hours at the Winter solstice. Production data is fed from the inverter via an RS232 interface into a P.C and thence by fibre optic link into the University's data network. This is available in real time, on the Starbase website www.
For further information contact either; - Dr Martin Anda.
manda@central.murdoch.edu - or
Christopher Darker cdarker@unisun.com.au
North face of the "Wet" Permaculture laboratory, with roof integrated power modules and
maximum solar aperture . The Winter performance of the wet lab and office will be analysed to establish the pro's and con's of direct and indirect solar heating.
maximum solar aperture . The Winter performance of the wet lab and office will be analysed to establish the pro's and con's of direct and indirect solar heating.