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Although I agree with your original statement that a home generally makes a poor investment you seem to go off at a tangent with suggestions I feel are unrealis
by streety 18y ago
Although I agree with your original statement that a home generally makes a poor investment you seem to go off at a tangent with suggestions I feel are unrealistic.
There is no reason why a local utility company (using your own source would suggest that these new reactors are going to be at the community level rather than the individual level - and I'm sticking with the idea of a utility company because that seems the best way to manage a community resource) would refuse to sell to people renting in the neighbourhood.
As for the water perhaps you could save a little money over a long enough period but I'm sceptical it's going to be a significant factor.
Growing your own food may or may not be a potential advantage depending on how much land you had. Although you can grow some food on any patch of space as large as a window ledge you aren't going to save much, if any, money in such a space. If you're really looking to save money and/or feed you and your family you'll need more space than most people, home owners and renters alike, will have. Your best bet would be an allotment which as far as I'm aware would be available to renters as well.
- TomOfTTB 18y agoI think you misunderstand. I'm not talking about tomorrow when I say these things will be possible. I specifically said "within my lifetime". I'm 29 now. But they will all happen. There are just too many ways that we know exist for it not to happen. It's inevitable. Maybe it won't be these reactors, or maybe someone will invent a more efficient system of generating power. But it doesn't matter. We are on the threshold of a world where power is no longer an issue and that is going to change a lot. When it does you’ll want to have your own land. Oh, and no, I don’t think an apartment owner is going to rush to do new construction on a building built in the 70s in order to make his/her tennant’s utilities cheaper.
- streety 18y agoI don't agree with your statement that, "There are just too many ways that we know exist for it not to happen. It's inevitable." There are a lot of ways we think might work. That is no guarantee that we'll get any of them to actually work. I'm still waiting for the predictions of the last generation to become reality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) The spectrum of landlords, and tenants, takes in the whole human spectrum. There are always going to be landlords who do the bare minimum. If the market is there for added extras then I don't see why a landlord wouldn't make the extra investment. Personally I'm in a property now for which all utilities are included in the price. I'm happy to pay for the convenience of that arrangement. If my landlord could purchase a private power supply to more economically meet my needs over the long term I think he would do so before most home owners got around to it. Finally what sorts of power systems do you envision for an apartment? With a house I can see some options, nuclear as previously mentioned, wind, solar, geothermal. For an apartment you don't generally speaking have access to the roof so options for solar and wind are limited and similarly you don't have access to the ground the building is on so geothermal is limited.