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Florida To Build Solar-Powered City

Posted by samzenpus on from the sunny-side-of-the-street dept.

Mike writes "The sunny state of Florida just announced that they will begin construction this year on the world's first solar-powered city. A collaboration between Florida Power & Light and development firm Kitson & Partners, the 17,000 acre city will generate all of its electrical needs via a 75 megawatt, $300 million solar-powered generator. The city will also use smart grid technology to manage its power and allow all inhabitants of the community to monitor their energy consumption."

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  1. In other news... by tttonyyy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...its dark at night.

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  2. Re:Close to my home.. by DragonTHC · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Holy Shit! you have computers in arcadia?

    last time I drove through (quickly) I could swear I heard banjo music!

    And all that stink, locally, is swamp gas.

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  3. Re:Why ground installation? by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    (1) Installation on the ground is less expensive than on rooftops.

    Installation on the ground covers up space where you could put trees which the whole world desperately needs, and as such is fucking retarded.

    (2) If you put them on rooftops, all the houses would have to point in the same direction and have the same roof angles to get best efficiency

    This is already true -- if they don't use passive solar techniques in building this place they are a bunch of completely incompetent stupid fuckheads anyway. Guess what? Every house will need to be facing south and have an overhang with the same ratio of overhang to room size in order to do this. The payoffs are immense and it's a serious fucking tragedy that houses aren't built this way by code let alone by default as they provide in most cases gigantic savings on heating and cooling bills.

    (3) In hurricane country, you might want to reset the panels horizontal in a storm to avoid damage

    No, you just use a mounting system that puts them flat against the roof so the wind can't get under them and rip them off.

    Your post is (-1, Pure FUD)

    That or pure ignorance.

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