ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Online ISSN : 1884-8117
Print ISSN : 0915-0390
ISSN-L : 0915-0390
Proposal of Organic Engineering
Keigo NAKAMURAYukihiro SHIMATANI
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1996 Volume 24 Pages 385-388

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Human race's technology is given priority in the quantitative and stable production of products and has developed after The Industrial Revolution. But on the other hand, such technology caused a lot of environmental problem such as air pollution and water pollution. To solve the environmental problem, a lot of technologies are proposed now. I wonder whether the paradigm which those technologies pursue is the same one as the technology which the human race has developed after The Industrial Revolution. The technology which solves an environmental problem needs a different paradigm. It is Organic Engineering. Organic Engineering is defined as the technology which takes in the natural energy such as sun light, heat, water, the wind etc., and acts like the living thing which synchronized with nature. In this technological paradigm, the system does not always need to function. For instance, it is acceptable that the system functions in sunny day but not in cloudy day. The environment always changes. Therefore it is not efficient that we try to solve by the technology which functions steadily from the entire energy efficiency viewpoint. We advocate Organic Engineering here as the basic concept of environmental technology which everybody takes into consideration.
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