Generating electricity for cities in cities

[Old Rocks]

Making large buildings in cities generate power is now rapidly expanding. 17 billion dollars in 2024 to an estimated 42 billion dollars by 2029.

MSN

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Wasting money is cool.

 

[1srelluc]

Just wait till one wants to install a (SMR) small modular nuke reactor.

This one was certified in 2023.

US Certifies First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor

This certification paves the way for companies to construct reactors that require less space, capital, and labor than their conventional counterparts.

www.extremetech.com

 

[ReinyDays]

Roof top solar is ubiquitous in San Diego now ... I guess the OP couldn't resist the bright shiny click-bait ... why he's foolish enough to share it here is incomprehensible ...

Hey stupid ... Portland has hydro ... it's the state taxes that make your electric bills so high ... check Idaho rates ... solar where it rains every day all day long ... what a maroon ...

 

[ding]

Given that large cities create heat islands, they may be the best place to install solar panels.

 

[trevorjohnson83]

 

[initforme]

Wasting money is cool.

Have people work from home. Of course if the company heads are morons....which is company heads defined.

 

[trevorjohnson83]

Toddsterpatriot its not fake news

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Toddsterpatriot its not fake news

Explain what is real about it.

 

[trevorjohnson83]

Explain what is real about it.

using the cement and city streets in a city gathers a lot of rain water in the drains when it rains. You could also direct small streams into the pool an make continuous dam like power. It is also a toy.

 

[fncceo]

Just wait till one wants to install a (SMR) small modular nuke reactor.

This one was certified in 2023.

US Certifies First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor

This certification paves the way for companies to construct reactors that require less space, capital, and labor than their conventional counterparts.

www.extremetech.com

I lived on top of a small modular reactor for months at a time but we had the entire ocean to provide copious quantities of cooling water.

Where does this thing get water?

 

[fncceo]

Given that large cities create heat islands, they may be the best place to install solar panels.

Heat doesn’t create power from solar panels, photons do.

The somewhat thicker atmosphere of most cities would block more sunlight than rural areas, not to mention the shade from surrounding buildings.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

using the cement and city streets in a city gathers a lot of rain water in the drains when it rains. You could also direct small streams into the pool an make continuous dam like power. It is also a toy.

You want to build a pool at street level?

 

[trevorjohnson83]

Toddsterpatriot a pool next to a cliff yes! ya know, this idea is probably a better one

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Toddsterpatriot a pool next to a cliff yes! ya know, this idea is probably a better one

Which modern city is next to a cliff?

 

[leftwinger]

Enjoy your mosquitos. Lol!

 

[leftwinger]

Solar panels are a series of big water diodes. Diode voltage changes ~-2mv per deg C. You get less voltage at hot temp. Do the math.

Of coruse if the sun is shining on the panels they are already hot? WTH? Is thos about?

 

[ReinyDays]

Toddsterpatriot a pool next to a cliff yes! ya know, this idea is probably a better one

Anyplace this is feasible .. it's already installed ...

c.f. Bonneville Power Administration or Tennessee Valley Authority ...

 

[trevorjohnson83]

Which modern city is next to a cliff?

there is a cliff along the shore of all the great lakes, rivers create cliffs next to them by carving the land, so any city by a river?

 

[trevorjohnson83]

Anyplace this is feasible .. it's already installed ...

c.f. Bonneville Power Administration or Tennessee Valley Authority ...

did the guy on the phone at.....bonervile......leave those dramatic pause dots in the thing he said to you about my thing? those dots sort of go dun ..dun ..DUNNNN!!! then the dots see to imply at the end that he meant to carry on, did you both just sit there in silence for a minute?