What Does It Take to Turn a City Solar?
The viability of solar-powered cities in 2018 and beyond Written by Benjamin Mallett ‘We can’t afford to wait.’ This is the warning being voiced by Huang Ming, a man known throughout China as ‘the sun king’ for his unwavering belief in the current potential of solar energy and the visionary behind an area of the city of DeZhou which has come to be titled the Solar Valley. [1] Huang Ming's Sun & Moon Microemissions Mansion in DeZhou, China Indeed, in order to overturn the argument lauded by influential sources such as the Huffington Post that ‘funding wind and solar energy is inefficient,’ it is the success of towns and cities fuelled entirely by renewable sources which will ultimately restructure public and business perceptions of the efficacy of solar and wind technologies. [2] This is the inspiration behind the Huang Ming’s Solar Valley project. Tangible proof of the viability of solar-supplied buildings designed with their energy consumption and output in-mi...