I 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 thi

I 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.