You can collect power around Whyville and we'll pay you clams for doing so!

Why? Because Whyville needs plenty of electrical power to keep everything running, from keeping Dr. Leila's pool clean to manufacturing face parts at Akbar's Face Factory. Most cities the size of Whyville (with over 7 million inhabitants) generate electricity from a variety of sources. In Whyville, we do so with six types of power plants:

• Coal plants that burn coal to heat water to turn a turbine for generating electricity.
• Hydroelectric plants that use flowing water to turn a turbine.
• Nuclear plants that use nuclear fission to heat water to turn a turbine.
• Natural gas plants that burn gas to heat water to turn a turbine.
• Solar power plants that use photon transfer within a semiconductor to generate electrical current.
• Wind turbines that generate electricity using wind power.

Each of these power plants has differing capacities, costs, and impacts on the environment:

	Coal	Hydroelectric	Nuclear	Natural Gas	Solar	Wind
Renewable
Capacity (MW)	400	1300	1000	500	100	300
Emissions (kg/hour)	396	23	22	250	5	6
Land Use (acres)	250	15000	42	58	371	15000
Cost in clams	22	20	40	50	3	3
Payoff in clams	32	104	80	40	0-8	0-20

Buying Power Plants

To get started, go to Becky's desk inside the WhyPower Plant and click on the power plant you want to buy. The cost and the payoff for each type of power plant is listed above.

The available plants depend on the vote results for the previous week. For instance, if the town voted to have no nuclear plants, there won't be any of those available this week.

Placing Power Plants

To place a power plant and start earning clams, you have to wear your power plant into a chat room and chat:

• whypower coal
• whypower hydro
• whypower nuclear
• whypower gas
• whypower solar
• whypower wind

Here are some suggested rooms where you can place power plants:

The Meadow The Playground WhyPower Outside

Beaches Bioplex Sportplatz

Now, not all power plants can be placed in all rooms. For example, a hydroelectric plant sitting on dry land would not do much good.

Hydroelectric plants need to be placed on rivers. Visit Twin Rivers and find a spot for your hydroelectric plant.

Nuclear power plants need a large body of water for cooling purposes, so visit Lake Fishin' to place your nuclear plants.

Now, if the citizens of Whyville have voted to use only clean energy, you cannot place the coal, gas, and nuclear plants in Whyville; however, at all times, you can place them in the practice rooms, regardless of the vote results:

• Practice Meadow
• Practice Lake Fishin'
• Practice Twin Rivers

What are you waiting for? Buy some collectors and start placing them today! Delve deeper into Whyville's energy infrastructure and earn clams by making important decisions at Power Planner Central.

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