Best temp is 60-70 anything more or less is intolerable.
Although I'd much rather it be 40� than 80�
Best temp is 60-70 anything more or less is intolerable.
Although I'd much rather it be 40� than 80�
+1
cold: one more layer of clothes
hot: once you're in pant watcha gonna do?
Big agreement, folks.
Actually I have this fantasy since childhood. The country where I live in is perpetually 30+C and global warming is making it even hotter. Average temps should be 34C by 2100.
With so much energy blasted at us from the sun everyday, surely we can do something with that excess energy. What if we constructed a gigantic dome covered with solar panels and used it to cover the city? Most of the heat would be absorbed and could be used to do things like power the lights and subway. It would be quite nice to have an ambient temperature of 20C or lower and we'll all be as well dressed as people in London. And the excess god knows how many joules will make us energy independent.
If solar panels are $1000/sq meter, it'll cost only 350 billion to cover half the entire country. Solar energy at the equator is about 1500kWh/m2 per year, taking in account more clouds. At 20% efficiency, 350km2 of panels should yield 105 billion kWh of energy. That's about 2.5x as much total energy as this country uses currently. Furthermore a significant usage of electricity in Singapore goes towards air conditioning now, and a lot of oil is imported to refuel ships calling at the port rather than being used by locals.
I could allow my fantasy to continue. As an island we are surrounded by water. Our neighbour Indonesia kindly supplies lots of carbon dioxide every year by burning their forests. If we have spare electricity we could create our own oils via the 'Power to Liquid' method. Then we would be totally self sufficient in energy and not even need to import bunker fuel for ships.
Singapore has the funds, the technical skills, and the population density to make this worthwhile. The political will for massive projects is already there. Already large parts of the country are underground, we have sections of the city covered by sunroofs and fans which make the street below cooler. Investing in a project like this is only a question of scale. It'll make us a genuinely air conditioned nation, energy independent, etc...
I'm sure some geek will come in to shoot down my fantasy, but of course that's the purpose of posting in this thread. It's a TP thread, so intellectual rigour is totally not needed.
