Originally Posted by Sirisian
You can exploit this for energy production actually. Super cities which are literally one giant city structure located around a solar updraft tower feed off the heat at the ground level through turbines and generate a ton of energy. It offsets a lot of the energy demand during peak hours for massive cities. You can build a few towers for instance around a city such as that.
I'm a big fan of planned super cities to cut down on electricity and transportation costs. We spread out way too much causing huge logistics problems. I digress, it's complicated. |
This can open up a whoooooole new topic on self reliance; why am I paying for an apple from Chile when I could grow the thing right outside my door?