every time somebody starts talking about power plants i go back to the seeds of my liberal poisoning ----- sim city 2000
anyways, i choose the microwave plant so i can do really sick tricks on my deck in that massive dish
Bottom center. Orbital solar is going to be the energy source of fully automated luxury gay space communism. Especially if we can't get fusion to work (there's no guarantee that reactor based fusion will ever be feasible, the laws of physics don't owe it to us).
I liked putting little wind turbines on hills
That and the solar death ray
Solar looks like a giant death ray pointed up to fire at God so naturally I choose that
But they're all fusion powered. (Except maybe the middle one, and even that is arguable.)
I think it's an oblique reference toward the fact that the sun is the source of nearly all available energy on earth.
Fusion - It's shaped like a U. I want a power district that reads "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
I love that this game gave you so many choices of power plants, was mostly correct about their tradeoffs*, treated pollution as a thing that people actually might care about, and made room for some rando pie-in-the-sky idea with microwave power.
*Solar and wind power suck in SimCity 2000, but they legitimately were bad until the 2010s, and I can't really fault them for failing to predict that. It also overstates the chances of nuclear meltdowns by an order of magnitude (but whatever these games overstate the chances of Godzilla attacks too), and misses the extreme variability in how good hydro power is based on the site (which would be so fiddly, and I can't blame them, though it's funny that the best hydro site in SC2K is a long series of rapids, which is like the opposite of what you want).
I didn't really understand the pollution system that well as a kid, so I always did coal somewhere in the middle of the land (so it can distribute power evenly) to start with and then a massive field of wind power when I got to it.
I liked the design of Solar and Microwave, though.
Microwave because space based solar rectennas are awesome and hilarious
It's a rectenna for collecting space based solar power beamed to earth via microwave
Is this actually what a 'microwave' would be in this context? I don't know about this kind of stuff so not sure if this is a joke
It would be transfered via microwaves, that is, EM waves with micrometer frequencies.
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/SOLARIS/Space-Based_Solar_Power_overview
FS Shifty + Stalefish Tweak into a (somewhat sloppy) Eggplant Nose Pick
An eggplant is a handplant variation lip trick while a nosepick is a BS disaster into an overcrook stall instead of a lipslide stall, therefore making an eggplant nosepick impossible
You probably meant a beanplant, which is a boneless variation where the board is popped like a no comply into a nosegrab before the footplant instead of an earlygrab indy footplant jump.
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I love how fucking goofy skate trick names are
Like "dudeeeee did you see that fakie disco flip to seatbelt grab salad grind?!"
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Birds?
I don't know if the power density would actually be high enough to cook birds... but I don't really care to check because it'll never be built in reality so real-world performance is irrelevant, and sci-fi maser satellites are cool. Unless you're a bird.
Beautiful clean coal
I want to hug and kiss the handsome coal miners!
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