This is wrong. WRONG.

[Luminara]

 

These panels are facing northwest.  Where Paragon City is located, in the New England region of North America, the sun would track east to west in the southern sky and the panels would never receive any direct insolation.

 

In other words, the sun would be behind the panels.  They're pointed the wrong way.

 

On the same rooftop, there's another series of panels facing southwest.  Those panels would receive insolation in the late afternoon and evening... if there weren't buildings right where the sun would be at that time.

 

This is really bugging me now.  If Paragon weren't already defunct, I'd fire the person who did this.  Twice.  With prejudice.  And a shoe.

 

😠

[TombTyrant]

Whoever put them in probably figured they'd get scavenged by Clockwork before anyone noticed.

[Darmian]

They're directly under Luminary's regular flight path as she patrols the city.

[merrypessimist]

I'd assume they were a scam designed to take advantage of poorly conceived government grants/tax breaks and their actual utility was never a consideration in their positioning.  

 

 

[ZorkNemesis]

I can't imagine they would've worked anyway, given that Astoria's been under a perpetual fog since the 50's.  Whoever put those in was likely an idiot.

[Zhym]

You’re more concerned with the direction the solar panels are facing than the fact that they’re on a building in Dark Astoria?

[skoryy]

[Luminara]

3 hours ago, ZorkNemesis said:

I can't imagine they would've worked anyway, given that Astoria's been under a perpetual fog since the 50's.  Whoever put those in was likely an idiot.

10 minutes ago, Zhym said:

You’re more concerned with the direction the solar panels are facing than the fact that they’re on a building in Dark Astoria?

 

They're all over the city.  They're at every university, they're in Atlas Park, they're in Kallisti Wharf (probably in Praetoria, too, since the KW and the current AP are modeled after that aesthetic)... and they're all facing the wrong direction (due east, due west, due north... fucking due north! are you kidding me?!) and/or located in places where they'd be shaded.  As far as I've been able to determine, there isn't a single instance of solar panels in the correct (southerly) orientation and situated in a location which doesn't have 35+ story buildings throwing shade on them.

[GraspingVileTerror]

Given the rest of the architecture and city planning Blueside, are you really that surprised?

[Myrmidon]

That has to be government contracts…

[Arcadean]

Disgraceful... I'll come by later and take em' back to my SG's base. 

 

[Luminara]

8 minutes ago, Luminara said:

As far as I've been able to determine, there isn't a single instance of solar panels in the correct (southerly) orientation and situated in a location which doesn't have 35+ story buildings throwing shade on them.

 

I FOUND ONE!  EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

 

95 yards due south of the university in Kallisti Wharf.

 

This is my happy place.

[Greycat]

Personally, I'd be more concerned with maze-layout office buildings and warehouses that couldn't possibly function as warehouses first, but...

 

[Shred Monkey]

It's ok.  They still got their 30% government subsidy for purchase and install costs which were artificially marked up by 250% and paid to their wholly owned subsidiary panel sales and installation company.  So essentially the panels paid for themselves as soon as they were installed.

Edited August 12, 2021 by Shred Monkey

[JasperStone]

These are not solar panels 

....

It is a Nemesis plot 

[arcane]

Do you really need solar panels when some of your citizens can produce electricity or atomic energy with their hands?

[Dazl]

Kudos to the salesman who sold them in Dark Astoria.

[Zhym]

22 minutes ago, arcane said:

Do you really need solar panels when some of your citizens can produce electricity or atomic energy with their hands?

They're probably more for backup in case someone finally manages to take out Terra Volta or blow the Faultline dam.

 

With the main sources of power being such juicy targets for villainous activity, is it any wonder that there would be a push for distributed solar energy at some point in the city's history?

[arcane]

38 minutes ago, Dazl said:

Kudos to the salesman who sold them in Dark Astoria.

Probably also sold them some of that volcano insurance 

[Xenosone]

9 minutes ago, arcane said:

Probably also sold them some of that volcano insurance 

Can i have some giant robot insurance? Possibly smaller robot insurance too.

[Chris24601]

3 hours ago, Greycat said:

Personally, I'd be more concerned with maze-layout office buildings and warehouses that couldn't possibly function as warehouses first, but...

 

Nothing to fear good citizen. All the architects in the city secretly belong to the Midnighters. Their building designs cause people to regularly trace out geomantric patterns that prevent the Things from the Outer Darkness from being able to invade our realm. You may gripe about the long commute to your office in the back end of the building, but its either that or Tentacles!!! coming out of places you don't even want to think about*.

 

* the back of my refrigerator; what are you, a pervert? 

[Zhym]

1 hour ago, Xenosone said:

Can i have some giant robot insurance? Possibly smaller robot insurance too.

After what happened to Overbrook, Eastgate, Venice, White Plains, Baumton, Astoria, and Woodvale—not to mention the level of everyday theft and property destruction—I'd expect that any insurance company in Paragon City has either long gone bankrupt or gotten very good at not paying out claims.

Edited August 12, 2021 by Zhym

[srmalloy]

3 hours ago, Dazl said:

Kudos to the salesman who sold them in Dark Astoria.

Since Astoria was relatively untouched by the Rikti War, and didn't have the initial takeover by the BP until after that, it's possible that the solar panels were installed prior to 2000, before anything happened.

[Hyperstrike]

16 hours ago, Luminara said:

 

These panels are facing northwest.  Where Paragon City is located, in the New England region of North America, the sun would track east to west in the southern sky and the panels would never receive any direct insolation.

 

In other words, the sun would be behind the panels.  They're pointed the wrong way.

 

On the same rooftop, there's another series of panels facing southwest.  Those panels would receive insolation in the late afternoon and evening... if there weren't buildings right where the sun would be at that time.

 

This is really bugging me now.  If Paragon weren't already defunct, I'd fire the person who did this.  Twice.  With prejudice.  And a shoe.

 

😠

This is what happens when you don't check references for your installers.

You get half-assery like this...

[ZorkNemesis]

5 hours ago, arcane said:

Probably also sold them some of that volcano insurance 

 

To be fair, there is volcanic activity under Paragon.  A fair bit under Eastgate Park (The Hollows) and plenty of the blue cave maps have visible magma channels in spots.