Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy solutions
Solar and Wind Farms
Will these solutions still require natural resources - harvested responsibly - to make them, they are part of the solution and will:
✓ Generate clean renewable energy to power the city
✓ Provide opportunities to generate energy more locally.
Renewable Energy solutions
A Waste-to-Energy Power Plant
This power plant at Coppenhill in Copenhagen, Denmark incinerates non-recyclable city waste and turns it into energy.
The building is also a dry ski slope!
Coppenhill, Denmark.
Renewable Energy solutions
Solar powered street lights - cities have hundreds of streetlights so it makes sense to use renewable energy when you can.
Kinetic pavement tiles people’s footsteps press the tiles down and generate electricity (Pavegen).
Kintetic dance floor - just like the pavement tiles, you can make electricity from people dancing on these special tiles.
Pee Power - build public toilets that collect people’s pee into a special device that converts it into electricity!