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

hweimer@fediscience.org

@zikko It's already on my to-do list.

kkarhan@infosec.space

@hweimer maybe consider solarthermal and other locations for any successive versions...

lockspringer@chaos.social

@hweimer please implement a button labeled "CxU" when clicked half of the solar panels should be demolished by a mob of middle aged Men with pitchforks, but nevertheless the player should receive a massive influx of money by a new faction called "traditional Energy suppliers" and the emoticon that depicts the player should change to a women with (colored) black hair. plus a magic power plant (gingerbread look please) that burns imaginary Hydrogen, and real fracking gas.

sarahlehmann@troet.cafe

@hweimer Gibt es auch einen Bundesstromberg, der erfolgreich teure E-Fuels-, Fusion- und Flugtaxen-Projekte versemmelt?

adeptveritatis@social.tchncs.de

@hweimer

When you have solar on your roof, you can use this energy and sell the surplus to your neighbors.

But what happens, if all your neighbors have solar on their roof, too?

Will there be a market price at all in a solar-powered economy?
Or will system costs become the main factor in a calculation?

Or will we see negative prices + H₂ generation = zero sum with good weather and extreme prices during dunkelflaute?
And can these niches be enough for energy companies to survive?

gittaca@chaos.social

@AdeptVeritatis @hweimer That's the reason why _building codes_ should nudge construction of East- & West-facing roofs, or the South-facing ones to be relatively vertical towards the winter sun.

Everyone optimising for their own maximum yield per year is doomed to favour alignment with Summer noons. It's only a 0-sum game _there/then_.

hackbyte@joinfriendica.de

@AdeptVeritatis Nope .. energy companies can go and suck d..

What we need are network operators maintaining the infrastructure for a shared smart grid.

So, electricity will in future just come with the cost for the cabling .. and not for the generation.

urwumpe@hessen.social

@AdeptVeritatis @hweimer This is the same question as why the USA import natural gas (for example via pipeline from Canada), if they are one of the biggest natural gas exporters on this planet. They even paid pretty high prices in the past. Real econonics are complex.

ichmeine@nrw.social

@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)

whangdoodler@piipitin.fi

@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?

mintyfries@mastodon.social

@hweimer Will try it when I get home!

dr2okevin@norden.social

@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

hweimer@fediscience.org

@IchMeine

Thanks for your bug report, it's fixed now.

Your solar park having an outsized influence on the entire economy is intentional: the game assumes your actions are repeated by your competitors. If you think that 11 ct/kWh is the optimal price, your competitors will think the same.

fabos@der.cyberterror.ist

@hweimer@fediscience.org uh oh, based on Germany? So it will be dead after few minutes of playing /jk

hweimer@fediscience.org

@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.

whangdoodler@piipitin.fi

@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..

godsoewilliam@ecoevo.social

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

oli@social.tchncs.de

@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@fediscience.org

@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?

dr2okevin@norden.social

@hweimer must have been some update process, reboot fixed it.

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