Solar Plant | |
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Building Requirements | Desert, no Nuclear Plant |
Production Cost | 500 |
Maintenance | 3 |
Unlocked at | Ecology |
The Solar Plant is a building available in the Atomic Era.
Game Info[]
Building a Solar Plant requires a Factory or any of its replacements, as well as at least 1 adjacent Desert tile. The city must also lack a Nuclear Plant.
With Social Policies / Tenets:
Overview[]
A solar plant collects the energy from the sun and turns it into electrical power. The most efficient solar plants are, naturally, in locations that get a lot of direct sunlight and not much cloud cover. At present solar-generated energy is somewhat expensive when compared with energy generated from fossil fuels (petroleum or coal), but solar technology is getting cheaper, and fossil fuels are getting more expensive - particularly when the environmental cost of the pollutants they emit is taken into consideration. Once the technology is perfected it will do much to satisfy the world's energy needs - it's estimated that the earth receives some 200,000 times more solar energy than humanity's total present electric-generating capacity.
Unique Building Replacements[]
Icon | Building | Civilization | Yields |
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Petrochemical Plant | Brunei (Omar Ali Saifuddien III) | ||
Windtrap | House Atreides (Paul Atreides) |
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