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

[hweimer@fediscience.org]

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.

Sonnenwende

(sonnenwende.codeberg.page)

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

[zeri@chaos.social]

@hweimer ahhh nice haven't played factorio in a while xD (the joke for the uninitiated is that people tend to massively overbuild solar because it causes no pollution/biter attacks)

[zikko@toot.cat]

@hweimer Graphs for production / demand / storage would be really nice.

[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?