Love this write up! Thank you for posting, I really like your ideas. Out of curiosity how would apartment buildings work in your plan. There are many cities where you probably don't want to encourage single family homes to reduce urban sprawl. How would you encourage high density housing in your plan?
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Calgary has this awesome network of bridges between like 19 buildings. There are apartment buildings, office towers, malls, indoor parks, grocery stores, metro and train stations. You don't have to go outside in that weather. They built the city to deal with the cold and it is really fantastic.
I understand your sentiment, but it took all of a half second to think of one scenario that would cause problems in the proposed system.
As frustrating as it is to hold off on a good-intentioned change, it is far more detrimental to charge headlong without considering the consequences. The systems that are in place now are there for a reason. Some of those reasons are greed and corruption, but others are because of they fulfill people's needs. It would be stupid to build a new system to address the greed side without addressing the need side.
How do you handle situations where people want to live temporarily in houses? An example would be a traveling nurse that doesn't want to be in an apartment building.
I don't have any other suggestions unfortunately. I have been using the general philosophy of this book with "ToDoist" which is a task/checklist app. Together they have made me feel more in control and my life less chaotic.
It's still hard to find motivation sometimes, even just followiny this framework. When I am following it, my stress levels seem to go way down because I'm not constantly worried I've forgotten about major things.
Life's hard man.
If anyone is actually interested in breaking this cycle, "Getting Things Done" is a great book that addresses this issue.
In relation to this: identifying what needs to be done isn't sufficient to start doing it. It is much easier to work on something when there are distinct tasks associated with it, so the next step after identify is create a list of all the tasks you need to complete along with all of the tools or resources you'll need to complete that task. Then, when the time comes to actually do any of the tasks there are less mental barriers of 'prepping' and more just doing.
This obviously won't fix motivation problems, but it does help.
Give us the horror movie we really want. Everyone dies but the dog.
They all have access to the Internet now. This would be much more detrimental to learning if other resources weren't in everyone's pocket.
I don't think the DC to DC conversion was adequately discussed in this article. If you were to implement a parallel DC and AC system in your home, you would need all of your DC devices to run on the same voltage, or you would need to convert them from the supply voltage to the useable voltage. The most efficient way to do a DC to DC conversion requires converting to AC to change the voltage, then converting the new voltage back to DC. If your goal is to reduce losses, these conversions would be much more efficient if you started with an AC source.
The only time you have big efficiency gains is when you're supplying the exact DC voltage required by the device. In a practical house this would mean having a few different DC feeds all at different voltages. That means more cabling and more electrical protection equipment per voltage.
I love the idea that we have a DC source and DC devices, why go to AC in-between? It's a compelling thought, but the reason is it's a good general system that is robust and pretty efficient independent of individual situations. Can you make a more optimized system per house taking into account the amount of energy it took to extract the metal for the additional wires and the savings on each conversion device? Yes, of course. Is it practical on a large scale? I don't think so.
That guy is not lacking in any way!
Again, love the lofty goal you're setting, but you pretty blatantly don't mention an alternative system. Easy to point out a problem, much harder to build a real solution.
The funny thing is, capitalism happened organically. It wasn't a designed system. So dismantling capitalism without a solid replacement will likely just lead right back to capitalism.
"Pantheon"
Age of Empires, but you have no direct control. You're a god that different factions can pray to and you have to use your influence to gain more followers over your rival gods. You can do that through demanding conquest, sacrifices, hedonism, or many other ways!
I think it'd be fun!