If something happened to electricity right now so that it cut out, would it be at all possible to run a large skyscraper on solar power? I am asking this as research for a book.

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Answer by wnxnuitari
High energy photons strike a piece of metal and knock off electrons, creating a current. It’s not particularly large, and obviously requires sunlight, so it’s unrealistic as a constant power source, but it could cover a fair bit of the load of a skyscraper. Heating/Cooling would probably be way too much of a load, but lights and laptops… certainly.

Nuclear power would be much preferable.

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