Week 11 - Solar Power

As light is desperately needed in the underground environment, it is important to be able to transfer the U.V and normal light throughout the whole system. Vegetation within the design will obviously need sunlight. Vegetation within the shafts will receive light naturally throughout the day. All of the vegetation within the green corridors will receive light transferred from the stored power. The car recycling centre and the shafts will house solar panels throughout the whole design.  There will be two types of solar panels which will include normal solar panels, which store light and then transfer that light as normal power into homes. The second type will be solar panels that collect and store the U.V light. The U.V light will be stored separately and then can be used for the green corridors and in the yards of the dwellings for all of the growth of the vegetation. 

Solar panels within this time in the future have also been developed and are a lot more efficient. For this reason, they are able to store and reuse the U.V light. The efficiency of the normal solar panels has also increased from around 10 - 15% today to around 85 - 90% in the period of this design. This allows ample light to be stored to power all of the services within the design. It also powers the car recycling centre above and the excess can be transferred to other buildings surrounding.