Comment Let me try my hand at the problems (Score 1) 217
Problems: generate and store clean electricity, grow food, make things, move around, and heat and cool buildings.
Hmm..
Heat & Cool Buildings:
- live on a small farm in a sunken "Earthship" home
Move around?
- Your food is within walking distance.
- Consumable goods (paper towel, toilet paper, water delivery, floss) get replaced with washing, bidet, RO filters, and Waterpik.
- Weekly deliveries, like trash service. A push toward shared vehicles would be reasonable here.
Grow Food:
- The farm thing again. Urban farming "tech" is getting impressive with no-fuel equipment to easily feed many.
Generate Electricity:
- Solar for your needs
Store Electricity:
- Move your needs to the daytime: Laundry, equipment running, etc.
- Overnight you've got (Earthship-minimal) A/C, Fridge, and minimal other needs, so why not a suspended water-tank?
What's broken about this plan:
- Manufacturing: All that great tech could come from employment somehow, but this could start moving to robotic (3d printing) or small-farm-optimized designs where your work includes building some part of a whole. The more that can move to online-focus tech, the better.
- Medical: (training is mostly online, but in-person is needed).
What else is saved:
- Building maintenance