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OverheardatYEG said:
Have to wonder what a uniquely Edmonton display will be? Do we get the glass panes in orange and blue?
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@cpnfantstk , it might be related to the "uniquely Edmonton display", which kind of scares me. Maybe a Super-LED light display allowing that spot to project a large bat symbol "E" symbol onto the night skies over Gotham City the Big E.
 
Those Facebook photos really illustrate how incredibly stupid these enviro virtue signalling solar panels are. Completely ruins the beautiful view from the atrium. If they actually cared about generating solar they could have just put some solar panels on the roof of Hall D.

Typical embarrassing CoE "design" work: spending a bunch of money to only make things worse.
 
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I personally think it looks fine, and still allows a considerable amount of natural light through. All this is done, while allowing renewable energy to be generated. Seems like a massive win from my standpoint. I guess we have different opinions on the importance of developing renewable energy infrastructure in this city.
 
I'm all for renewable energy, but if your goal is to maximize renewable energy production this still would be horrible. The type of installation they've done is really economically inefficient for generating power, it costs waaaaaaay more to do a specialised installation like this compared to buying standard solar panels. I'd be more than willing to bet for the price of what they've done here they could be generating more renewable electricity for less money by gong the route of covering their roof with high quality, high efficiency off-the-shelf panels.
 
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That's definitely a fair point to make.

I guess I'm okay with a higher cost project in that it has a marketing impact on the use of solar energy in Edmonton. If it turns out to be cheaper in a more hidden location, that impact is lost. I think it's neat, at the least, that this project has such a prominent impact on our southern skyline.

It's also interesting in that this type of solar can be applied over windows and opens up a lot of potential, especially as the technology becomes more efficient.
 
@jason403 Which makes me think about how it seems like for every person that thinks a bleeding edge installation like this is a waste and we should have done something more standard, there is also another person lamenting that Edmonton isn't bold enough or isn't innovating, etc.
 
I have my doubts that doing something more expensively and intrusively than what's standard is really what we should be pushing as "Edmonton innovation". :p

@jason403 I get the point about it being for marketing, I just don't think it's particularly good marketing I suppose.
 
Maybe it couldn't, but this isn't about Hall D specifically, it's about the city's choices in investing in renewable energy. The city has myriads of buildings and land it could have put non-obstructive and less expensive solar panels on top of and likely been able to generate more renewable electricity than this project at the same price. I'm very much pro-renewables, but I would like the city to spend the money in a smart way and I just don't think making our convention centre's atrium look worse is this big bonus especially when we consider the potential alternatives. ?‍♂️
 
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