Comments on: Solar power in the city http://yourwellington.org/2009/08/solar-power-in-the-city/ Building the city you want Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:45:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eli Weir http://yourwellington.org/2009/08/solar-power-in-the-city/comment-page-1/#comment-497 Eli Weir Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:35:50 +0000 http://yourwellington.org/?p=63#comment-497 How about rooftop gardens in the CBD that help lower ambient temperature (caused by all that concrete and glass), balance carbon emissions, circulate air, and soak up solar energy (via embedded systems and the plant-life)? A program of retrofitting large-scale office buildings would do wonders for the lifestyle of those that use them, as well as ensuring a lower power-consumption (and potential to return energy to the grid via those solar cells). How about rooftop gardens in the CBD that help lower ambient temperature (caused by all that concrete and glass), balance carbon emissions, circulate air, and soak up solar energy (via embedded systems and the plant-life)?

A program of retrofitting large-scale office buildings would do wonders for the lifestyle of those that use them, as well as ensuring a lower power-consumption (and potential to return energy to the grid via those solar cells).

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