A Solar-Powered City to Debut in Florida

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  04.10.09 | 12:22 PM ET

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Hey, if the United Arab Emirates can build a giant eco-city in the desert, then sunny Florida should do just fine with a solar-powered town near Fort Myers, in the southwestern portion of the state.

Reuters reports that the developers of the planned $2 billion Babcock Ranch—an environmentally friendly city of 19,500 houses and some six million square feet of space including retail and offices—say it will run on what they bill as the world’s largest photovoltaic solar plant.

Let’s just hope the Sunshine State’s sun city isn’t underwater by the end of the century.

Tags: Eco Travel, Global Warming, North America, United States, Florida, News and Briefs

Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


1 Comment for A Solar-Powered City to Debut in Florida

Ling 04.11.09 | 10:43 AM ET

If it does get dunked, they could always run it on wave energy. I mean, if you’re a really big fan of clean energy, you’re not going to be put off by little things like your city going unerwater.

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