Here's your chance not just to be the mayor, but the original city planner as well! Imagine a medium sized city that would be developed with modern, low carbon transportation in mind, and other strategies to reduce the average citizens' carbon footprints.
What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?
Sustainable City >
Power
In a sustainable city modern methods like coal, and gas would not be used to provide power for homes and cars, however methods like solar, wind and nuclear power will. The burning of fossil fuels is bad for the environment and for the animals that breathe in the byproducts. The use of solar power has the most likely source of power for the sustainable city. The kind of solar power to be used is not solar panels but is called a concentrated solar power system. This system uses mirrors to heat sodium melting it into a liquid and the sodium is used to boil water and spin turbines which spin generators. This possess produces no emissions and no waist however it is not a system that can be scaled down and needs a large tower for the light to be focused on.
The city of sustainable city of the future will not run on just one source of power another source of power that works 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Nuclear reactors can be made safe and very efficient. And the waste can be used by other reactors. The down side it that it produces a small amount of dangerous byproducts in the form of nuclear waste but compared to coal and fossil fuels that would be burned in that same amount of time it is a fraction of the waste.
The third and semi reliable way of producing power for a city is wind power. Wind power is promising for power but only works is there is a strong grid supporting it because if there is no wind and it is night. There is no single source of power it takes multiple sources of power to supply a town and as technology advances power will become easier and easier to make.
Interesting point! I agree that all three of those ways of producing power and energy are a lot better than using fossil fuels. Like you stated, it is much more eco-friendly and efficient to convert to these systems. However, getting people to do this won't happen over night. Like anything, many people don't like change; and until they are aware of the positives, it is unlikely they will bother to support these systems. If we spread the word, hopefully people will get the memo and become more echo-friendly and help our planet out. By doing my part and helping, my pool and outdoor lights are solar powered.
That is an interesting idea. However, I also think that getting people to change to solar power would be hard and installing a solar power system can be expensive.