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In reply to the discussion: Nuclear renaissance? US OKs new reactor design [View all]diane in sf
(3,913 posts)home. I also don't have to drive to work, shop, see friends, or be entertained. Many people are also growing food in their back yards here. I'm subsidizing people in suburbia who are using way more water, electricity, gasoline per person than I am.
Northern California buys hydropower from Oregon and Washington in the winter when they have a surplus.We could be generating a summer solar surplus. I view the whole thing as an interdependence.
There are also many ways of making it all work better. We were having a terrible drought in California in the 80s, we couldn't flush our toilets up here and people in LA were growing lawns (in a desert!!!), hosing down their driveways, and trying to snag more of our water to do this unnecessary stuff.
I would like to see an arrangement like you see in Germany. Dense walkable cities and discrete towns in the countryside surrounded by farmland.