Re: levels of automation, yes you would have somewhat more varied work, which would be good. I've been sort of wondering whether 6 wasn't going a bit the way of Detroit in terms of increasing automation decreasing the labor needs--otherwise wouldn't the Capitol be more concerned with tamping down rampant drug use? I guess it's also possible that we're all overstating the "6 is the morphling district" case but the other is kind of interesting to think about.
crazy taxes, regulatory restrictions, and a heavy reliance on meeting the needs of Peacekeepers. This sounds interesting, I haven't read her fic, I'll have to look it up, any particular recs?
I do think there have to be some concessions to reality at various points (eg, what if all the natural gas or shale oil isn't located in Five? Is the Capitol really not going to put a few wells in Ten just because it's supposed to be the livestock district??) Yes exactly. I'm sure there's lots of losses in productivity but some things are just PHYSICS and seriously, distributed power generation is necessary. I think at least the passenger trains are electric and in my head there's distributed supplementary solar generation stations along the tracks in addition to the larger scale power plants. Not sure exactly how that works but it seems more or less feasible. And re: renewables, I think they play a larger role than now because of North American isolation and increasing scarcity/extraction cost of petroleum. I think mostly electric cars fits from both an efficiency/scarcity and a control standpoint--it's easier to stockpile fuel than batteries, so you can really effectively limit transport range with electric.
Anyway, just rambling, but it's interesting stuff to think about!
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Date: 2014-12-01 07:27 pm (UTC)crazy taxes, regulatory restrictions, and a heavy reliance on meeting the needs of Peacekeepers.
This sounds interesting, I haven't read her fic, I'll have to look it up, any particular recs?
I do think there have to be some concessions to reality at various points (eg, what if all the natural gas or shale oil isn't located in Five? Is the Capitol really not going to put a few wells in Ten just because it's supposed to be the livestock district??)
Yes exactly. I'm sure there's lots of losses in productivity but some things are just PHYSICS and seriously, distributed power generation is necessary. I think at least the passenger trains are electric and in my head there's distributed supplementary solar generation stations along the tracks in addition to the larger scale power plants. Not sure exactly how that works but it seems more or less feasible. And re: renewables, I think they play a larger role than now because of North American isolation and increasing scarcity/extraction cost of petroleum. I think mostly electric cars fits from both an efficiency/scarcity and a control standpoint--it's easier to stockpile fuel than batteries, so you can really effectively limit transport range with electric.
Anyway, just rambling, but it's interesting stuff to think about!