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People aren't you. There are some people who in your area travel 3-4 hours everyday to have a paying job. You should know that what you're proposing is next to impossible in most major metropolitan markets where housing is a huge expense. It's not as simple as waving your hand and decreeing it be so.
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It would be if I hadn't lost that lamp. But really, people should take it into consideration, though. What do you do again? Something with computers?
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Grammar and punctuation. I read it as you wanted to live underground, and then you added:
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No, but having a refrigerator and water heater better insulated, like they would if they were in in the ground, would help to make them a lot more efficient.
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There's a reason why basements aren't prevelant in California.
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That's a myth. There are plenty of basements in California, they're just required to meet a higher standard by the county they preside in. I have a basement and a bomb shelter myself. Both survived the 1987 earthquake without a scratch.
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I don't want solar panels. Our buildings house 1657 units. There isn't enough area on top of the buildings to give enough electricity to make any real impact, except the cool hip factor of saying that your building is "solar". We also don't have enough sun days here in NYC to justify the costs. We do studies every couple of years to see if it is feasible.
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You don't need "sun days" to create electricity. Thick meto areas like those you live in could be compensated for by building solar arrays in desolate areas with plenty of sun (Arizona and New Mexico?). What I'd like to do is have people pay into one big fund and then build for everyone, but everyone hates how well socialism works, so build your own.