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Question by furious_male: What would it take to convert a housing community from fossil fuels to solar energy in the home?


Serious discussion here.

How feasible is the idea of communities, towns, even whole cities being powered by solar energy? At the most, how about these communities being fractionally powered by solar energy; 40% Solar/ 60% Fossil fuels?

We’re not getting all George Jetson, here. We have practical means by which to make something like this happen. My research has lead me to believe the problem comes in with the initial setup.

If this is so, what would it take to materialize the dollars? Should each State solicit a ‘solar energy’ tax; money dedicated to fund R&D solutions for citizens? Is it something that can be solicited to big business in exchange for free plugins; Staples invests in a solar power grid in Downtown Los Angeles… and calls it ‘The Staples Power Center”.

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power#Advantages_and_disadvantages_of_Solar_power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_ponds

Best answer:

Answer by campbelp2002
It is really hopeless unless solar cells get much cheaper or fossil fuel gets really expensive.

Your second source says solar panels costing $ 4 can make one watt of power, so $ 4,000 dollars worth of cells can make 1000 watts, or one kilowatt. If they get sun for one hour they would make one kilowatt-hour of power. The average home electricity rate is about ten cents a kilowatt-hour. So the $ 4,000 solar panel saves ten cents an hour on your electricity bill. And that does not include the cost of the electronics to run the system and especially not the cost of batteries to run it at night. To run a typical 3,500 watt central air conditioner would require $ 14,000 worth of solar cells.

As I recall when I looked into putting solar panels on my roof, a $ 25,000 system would have saved me about $ 1 or $ 2 a day.

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I intended to take them to the recycling center so I wouldn’t add to e-pollution, but I never got them there, and then we had a community clean-up day so I could get rid of them for free. Did I just ruin the environment?

Best reply by Crazy Minds:

ick ick ick. there’s so much… garbage in computers that totally destroy the earth. Next time, send it to recycling, even if you have a wait a bit.

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Did I destroy the environment by sending my dead computer monitor and microwave to the dump?

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I have to answer this question for school “what you think YOUR neighborhood could do involving plants and trees and landscapes to better or enrich your community.”

Well I had the ideas of carpooling so that we will pollute less gas into the air. And to plant more trees, but I don’t know an explanation WHY planting trees would be helpful to our environment. 10 points for good answer!

Best reply by carrieirene85:

Trees give off oxygen which combats CO2 in our environment, which contributes to depleting the ozone layer. Oxygen fights this and makes our air more breathable and healthy.

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How will planting trees help our environment?