How Singapore Uses Science to Stay Cool

Heat waves kill more people than any other extreme weather event: more than tornados, hurricanes, and even floods. That’s why scientists are coming up with novel, new designs to help keep temperatures down in Singapore.

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Part 1 /3 MEGAPROJECT: Singapore’s Deep Tunnel Sewerage System

Singapore is geologically challenged and with climate change, a growing population and economic competition – the country needs land to develop. To overcome the pervasive space challenge, the country is investing in megaprojects that will help overcome these problems and take it into the next century.

One such project is the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System. By using new technology, this infrastructure will also take Singapore’s sewage management into the next century. But tunnelling under built up areas is less than ideal. The team has to move massive tunnel boring machines that are each the length of 10 SBS buses underground. And that’s not the biggest challenge. Deep below, they have to contend with geological challenges and the ever present risk of sinkholes.

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Part 2 / 3 One Of World’s Largest Floating Solar Farm : Singapore’s Solar Plan

In the next decade, Singapore must confront the interconnected challenges of climate change, a growing population and the need to remain globally competitive on a small island. The solution is to invest in innovative new megaprojects that do more in less space.

This episode tells the story of how engineers designed and constructed one of the world’s biggest floating solar farms on Tengah Reservoir. We show how engineers solve the challenges of a unique environment.

When completed, the energy generated by the Tengah solar farm will help Singapore achieve ambitious new solar targets by the end of the decade. And scientists are looking further into the future. To boost the country’s solar energy output, they are developing the next generation of solar panels and transforming the nation’s power grid.

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Part 3 / 3 Radical Innovations To Singapore’s Water Problem

As a small island with a growing population and limited natural water resources, Singapore is in the midst of innovating new solutions to manage its water supply. Already, two-thirds of the city’s land mass is dedicated to water catchment zones to secure freshwater resources but it’s still insufficient. So inland research teams are relying on Nobel Prize knowledge to invent a high-tech filtration system that makes state-of-the-art water processing more energy-efficient than it is currently.

But it’s not just the water supply inland that requires new innovations. Singapore requires more land with every passing day and so planners have a bold vision for the Tuas megaport, an ambitious construction project that will build the biggest container port in the world by 2040. A port that is AI-powered and remote-controlled, from the very minute the container ships docks at the berth.