I’m wanting to write a book. In this book, I am thinking of having a Solar Tower, covered with Solar panels. Would this be enough to generate enough power for a small city or town?
Also, what else would I need? Wind power? I’m thinking of having it set on smaller islands near England, and they need to be self sufficient.
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sounds really cool!
(you don’t need to tell readers about the ‘only supplying a house’ thing because most people are oblivious when it comes to solar power. just say that it supplies an entire city and they’ll believe it!)
you should probably make the solar tower extremely high…
and you should have lots of wind power too. in reality, the tower would be near impossible to create, and supply maybe a house for everyday electricity, but nobody really knows that in real life.
self sufficient is the way to go
good luck!
For about $ 80,000 you can power everything in your home with solar. Be my guest. If you live for about 500 years you might break even. Let us all know how it works out.
The main advantage to solar energy is that, unlike fossil fuels, it is inexhaustible. Not only that but there is little to no harmful emissions associated with renewable energy. Wind power is a form solar energy as well. Currently solar power is used for residential homes primarily. Flat solar panels feed energy into the cities power grids, effectively running the homes meter backwards for as much power as the panel produces. To answer your question about the tower, it is estimated that a tower that would produce 100 MegaWatts would have to be 1000 m high and 20 KMs in area. The largest one currently constructed can power about 10,000 homes (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/worlds-largest-solar-power-tower-spain.php). To give you a scale coal plants produce about 3.5 gigawatts in comparison. Currently wind energy shares a similar efficiency rating (20.3%). But countries like China, Germany, and the United States all produce 25+ Gigawatts of power through wind farms. Currently it seems unfeasible to run a city on only solar energies. There are other renewable resources such as tidal energy and geothermal energy but those are rather lacking as well. Look into nuclear energy because it is rather efficient and with the proper safety methods and waste disposal methods, it can be considered a good alternative to fossil fuels. Hope that helps.