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(Miami Herald) Florida Developers plan first solar city. The sun is there   (miamiherald.com) divider line 31
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real_headhoncho [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 11:33:19 PM  
Very good, Subby. You get 1 INTERNET for that one.

 
brian7dog 2009-04-10 03:50:55 AM  
Nice one Subby

 
video man 2009-04-10 04:02:50 AM  
It's funny because "The Sun" is a tabloid often featured on FARK!

 
snowcircle 2009-04-10 04:04:34 AM  
*clap* *clap* good one, subby

 
Hector Remarkable 2009-04-10 04:05:50 AM  
FTFA "Even if the solar city is never built,"

What kind of talk is that now?

 
00ghost27 2009-04-10 04:06:09 AM  
video man: It's funny because "The Sun" is a tabloid often featured on FARK!

OH-HO!!

 
zamboni 2009-04-10 04:14:21 AM  
video man: It's funny because "The Sun" is a tabloid often featured on FARK!

And the strangest thing is that Subby actually was not aware of that! It was all a coincidence. Serendipity, if you will.

 
vlakorados 2009-04-10 04:58:01 AM  
Subby gets one (1) golf clap.

 
basilbrush 2009-04-10 05:23:39 AM  
been done, bad subby.

 
buddyrtr 2009-04-10 06:12:42 AM  
Headline gave me my first chuckle of the day - Thanks!

 
stayclassy 2009-04-10 06:13:20 AM  
ha ha ha, that's a good one.

Wait, I don't get it.

 
sbchamp 2009-04-10 07:42:35 AM  
buddyrtr: Headline gave me my first chuckle of the day - Thanks!

"Would laffin' at fark subs be a farkle?"

 
Omnivorous 2009-04-10 07:43:30 AM  
Developers plan first solar city. The sun is there

Not at night. Or in Seattle, either.

 
Thisbymaster 2009-04-10 08:21:37 AM  
That was a very short, without good information. Plus I would think that instead of having large solar plants it would make more sense to have the panels on all the roofs thus using previous lost energy.

 
B A [TotalFark] 2009-04-10 08:30:21 AM  
Thisbymaster: That was a very short, without good information. Plus I would think that instead of having large solar plants it would make more sense to have the panels on all the roofs thus using previous lost energy.

Why not both? Then the excess could be fed into the main grid.

 
Tevo-D 2009-04-10 08:35:53 AM  
Thisbymaster: That was a very short, without good information. Plus I would think that instead of having large solar plants it would make more sense to have the panels on all the roofs thus using previous lost energy.

That is not 'lost' energy, that is energy absorbed by the buildings, which the air conditioning then has to remove... by consuming more power.

 
fireclown 2009-04-10 08:44:50 AM  
B A: Why not both? Then the excess could be fed into the main grid.

I'm a long time solar hobbyist. There isn't a whole lot of excess energy, trust me. The big upside to rooftop PV generation is that you don't lose energy in the transmission process. And while we're on the subject, you get more bang for your buck with water heating.

That said, hell yes and yea verily. We need a thousand more of them. And to the naysayers, how much more coal is getting made these days?

 
sxacho 2009-04-10 08:47:58 AM  
I'm in Charlotte County so I'm getting a kick out of this. Also it'll never happen because the county building department consists of a bunch of over-regulatory dickwads who are looking for ways to nit-pick every god-damned project to death so it looks like they're working, for fears of being included in the next round of lay-offs.

/or so I hear

 
Fano 2009-04-10 09:40:30 AM  
Heliopolis would have a word.

Also:
www.mutantreviewers.com

 
Fano 2009-04-10 09:42:07 AM  
johnnorrisbrown.com

Already found several.

 
AlecRazec 2009-04-10 10:46:15 AM  
tn3-1.deviantart.com

This can't be too obscure, can it, Fark?

 
jedder 2009-04-10 10:49:44 AM  
"Babcock land east of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda."

This.

 
Fruvous [TotalFark] 2009-04-10 11:08:25 AM  
Best "The Sun Is There" evar.

 
eggrolls [TotalFark] 2009-04-10 12:29:57 PM  
The new city, Babcock Ranch,

I read that as "Bacon Ranch". A solar powered city, made of bacon...mmmmmmm.

 
BillTheCat 2009-04-10 01:06:38 PM  
Omnivorous: Developers plan first solar city. The sun is there

Not at night. Or in Seattle, either.


Actually, modern solar generating stations include reservoirs of molten salt to wtore excess heat energy, thus allowing the plants to keep producing electricity at peak rates for another 6 hours after the sun has gone down.

/Working on permitting for a combined 450 megawaats of solar plants, so I am getting a kick, etc...

 
olddeegee [TotalFark] 2009-04-10 01:36:53 PM  
Oh this is a bad thing. Now we'll just use the sun up faster. Stick with what we know, and things we can burn.

 
Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goon 2009-04-10 02:07:38 PM  

 
Polishwonder74 2009-04-10 04:08:46 PM  
wpcontent.answers.com

/w00t
//hot

 
foxo 2009-04-10 05:18:02 PM  
That "developer"(demolition expert)needs to be horse whipped out of Florida.
We do not need any more destruction,people, buildings,industry,oil drillers or Madoffs and Greenspans.Got that ?
Now pack up,we put up our own solar panels.

 
j0ndas 2009-04-10 06:08:20 PM  
I've heard claims like this before, but it won't work. Humid climates are not good for solar cells, there is no energy storage technology capable of storing enough power for the downtimes, and you can't produce enough energy on a major building to provide all its power. The only way you can get away with this is to use a large additional area paved in solar cells to provide power, and even then you have to trade energy produced during the daytime for conventional power piped in from somewhere else during the night.

There was a recent article in the MIT Technical Journal which described some projects of this sort.

 
nelbuts1 2009-04-10 08:55:42 PM  
What they don't tell you is they are going to tack on a surcharge to every electric bill in the state to pay for it! What ever happened to building something on your own for a change?

Oh and I live in this wonderful "green count". Get this they went to once a week trash pick up saying it would reduce carbon foot print by using an automated truck. Spent over $3 million on special trash cans and the truck now has to drive up and down the street twice where before it was one trip.

 
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