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Originally Posted by djmk
what am i trying to say?
well, there is solar energy produced at the Lynn Valley Care Center producing 9MWh. There is another at SFU producing about 10MWh. Again, more solar ontop of the Olympic Village. Solar works in our environment
This tower will produce 1.5MWh in a season in which Vancouver does not need extra energy.
all i'm saying, is that Grouse mountain could of gone "green" by using better technologies. But Grouse mountain really does not care about being green, it cares about making profit. Generally I would say, "good for them", however I think they are just playing with our enviro heart strings when they really wanted was a look out tower.
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Sorry there, but you have
no idea what you're talking about. A MWh is a unit of energy, a MW is a unit of power.
That solar array on top of the Lynn Valley Care Centre is a small solar array. In a 10 second search on google it looks like it produces 8.75kW. Thats .00875MW. The 10 MWh figure is probably per annum. The turbine on top of grouse produces 1.5MW peak. If it ran full bore all year long it would produce 13140MWh. In all reality it will probably produce 20% of that, but thats still over
200x the output of the solar array on top of Lynn Valley Care Centre.
The Lynn Valley Care Centre array is there simply to assist with powering the geothermal heating system installed in the building. It doesn't even provide all the power needs of the building given a peak output.
A 10MW solar facility isn't something you simply plop on top of a building. They're freaking huge. Now I don't want to come off as a condescending dick, but if you want to wrap yourself in a blanket of green enviro happiness please, please, please some more research.