I wrote a small game simulating the transition to a solar-powered economy.

I wrote a small game simulating the transition to a solar-powered economy. You can build solar panels, batteries, hydrogen storage and sell your generated electricity at market prices. Electricity demand, pricing, and weather conditions are based on realistic models for Germany.

https://sonnenwende.codeberg.page/

#gaming #games #simulation #solar #solarpunk #renewables #godot #opensource #germany

@hweimer
Fun little game.

I think I found a bug: when having a building selected, then opening for example the control unit, and then trying to deselect the building it will be bought (and deselected).

Two places for improvement: battery SOC (and gas storage) should be visible from the main screen, it feels like your facility has too much impact on the overall electricity price (if i set my battery discharge price to 11 cents, the electricity price seems to get nailed to 11 cents)

I wrote a small game simulating the transition to a solar-powered economy. You can build solar panels, batteries, hydrogen storage and sell your generated electricity at market prices. Electricity demand, pricing, and weather conditions are based on realistic models for Germany.

https://sonnenwende.codeberg.page/

#gaming #games #simulation #solar #solarpunk #renewables #godot #opensource #germany

@hweimer can you build those on top of existing buildings like supermarkets and parking garages, or to shade parking lots to simulate the fact that you do not need to topple any trees to be able to successfully build a solar energy system?

@whangdoodler

To some extent you could certainly do that, maybe not at the same price per kW. But you are right that land usage is a challenge, although it's better than surface mining of coal.

I wrote a small game simulating the transition to a solar-powered economy. You can build solar panels, batteries, hydrogen storage and sell your generated electricity at market prices. Electricity demand, pricing, and weather conditions are based on realistic models for Germany.

https://sonnenwende.codeberg.page/

#gaming #games #simulation #solar #solarpunk #renewables #godot #opensource #germany

I wrote a small game simulating the transition to a solar-powered economy. You can build solar panels, batteries, hydrogen storage and sell your generated electricity at market prices. Electricity demand, pricing, and weather conditions are based on realistic models for Germany.

https://sonnenwende.codeberg.page/

#gaming #games #simulation #solar #solarpunk #renewables #godot #opensource #germany

@hweimer I get this error on Firefox 140.7.0esr on Ubuntu with Proprietary Nvidia Drivers.

Error
The following features required to run Godot projects on the Web are missing:
WebGL2 - Check web browser configuration and hardware support

@dr2okevin

I'm using the same version of Firefox (Debian trixie). I can only reproduce the error if I disable WebGL2 support by setting webgl.enable-webgl2 to false in about:config. Any chance you made changes to your Firefox configuration?

@hweimer
Don't ask me how I figured this out, but at 2046-01-01 I'm asked if I can meet the increased demands of BEVs and heat pumps and then the game loop just stops.

@hweimer what a great idea, are you iterating this, did you want feedback?

@GodsoeWilliam

Feedback is always welcome.

@hweimer 1) I think you should put in units of energy instead of money, in the displays money is front and centre, but really it is energy that we want to optimize. You could think about a solar panel in terms of how much energy it needs/harvests 2) from my extensive sim city experience i'm used to more clues about space, are there connections between solar cells, are they connected implicity? Could it be indicated what is connected? Fonts on top could be bigger, will wind turbines come?

@hweimer its better than surface mining coal, but is that the standard we want to set?

most sensible thing for humans and climate would be have smaller lots of solar farms in between and on top build surroundings. not as inviting to investors but over all better and decentralised..

@hweimer 1) I think you should put in units of energy instead of money, in the displays money is front and centre, but really it is energy that we want to optimize. You could think about a solar panel in terms of how much energy it needs/harvests 2) from my extensive sim city experience i'm used to more clues about space, are there connections between solar cells, are they connected implicity? Could it be indicated what is connected? Fonts on top could be bigger, will wind turbines come?

@GodsoeWilliam

I'm not sure about 1), as a kWh in a December night is more valuable than a kWh at noon in June. Focusing on energy does not reflect that.

Concerning 2), the game assumes that all wiring has been taken care of. That's part of the reason why an array of solar panels cost more than the 50 EUR/450 Wp you currently find listed. I've thought about bringing cables to the game, but my concern is that it would distract from the main task and lead to too much micromanagement.

The main argument against adding wind power is that I don't want to go into the rabbit hole of having to build a realistic wind model.

@hweimer all fair, but you have the link labled as sonnenwende, isn't that sun and wind?