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When it comes to solar vs. nuke, nuke generation (because it's an industry obsessed with safety) claims far fewer lives per Watt-hour than solar, coal, even wind. It's just that when failures do happen, everybody notices. This is even if you include the deaths from the atomic bombs and their development.
Car Analogy - Think of it as the same as traveling by car or airplane. We know driving a car is much more dangerous than flying. But when a passenger jet goes down, it's news for weeks. When a fatal car crash happens, no one hears about it. No one cares when Lenny falls off a roof installing a solar panel that won't even produce enough energy savings over its life to pay for itself. If that same Lenny dies from radiation exposures expect a few weeks of nuclear radiation news.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html The stats.
$400 a month rent? Where have you been lately? In just about anything worth being called a city you are going to be spending more like $1000 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. Utilities are going to add another couple hundred onto that.
Outside of a city, there isn't going to be a bus. So now you have to have a car unless the weather is perfect all the time - and it isn't and no job lets you skip work because of bad weather.
No, trying to live on $20,000 a year in a city is a real challange today.
I rented a house in a city of 300K with 2 bedroom, one bath, attached garage for $600 a month.I then purchased a comparable house (3BR, 2BA) for what ends up after taxes to be a 1068 mortgage a month. Affordable housing does in fact exist. It's the urban centers with restrictive growth policies (to prevent sprawl) that keep housing prices up. It's a city, and I was on a bus line, but we allowed new construction.
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