{"id":403,"date":"2017-10-16T01:49:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T01:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=403"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:07:51","slug":"smart-utilities-plant-for-the-tropics","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/news\/smart-utilities-plant-for-the-tropics\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart utilities plant for the tropics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element txt-block\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element txt-block\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong><em>The eco-friendly system harvests waste energy and is suitable for building clusters and underground cities.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Developed by NUS ME research team led by Associate Professor Ernest Chua, the novel system could pave the way for a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective way of producing key essentials for daily living \u2013 electricity, water, air-conditioning and heat. It is suitable for housing and building clusters, as well as underground cities, especially those in the tropics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nus.edu.sg\/press-releases\/smart-utilities-plant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>(Straits Times article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/four-in-one-utilities-plant-for-the-tropics\">http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/four-in-one-utilities-plant-for-the-tropics<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eco-friendly system harvests waste energy and is suitable for building clusters and underground cities. Developed by NUS ME research team led by Associate Professor Ernest Chua, the novel system could pave the way for a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective way of producing key essentials for daily living \u2013 electricity, water, air-conditioning and heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":404,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[39],"class_list":["post-403","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-all-me"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14129,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/403\/revisions\/14129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}