I'd like to see some experimentation with "micro" levels of residential electric service. [View all]
Perhaps in exchange for free electric service the electric utility would install a 500 milliamp limiter in your breaker box. It could be built into a "smart meter."
Bring your own household load management, (modular battery systems or ??? ), add supplemental solar, or just utilize the micro electric service as-is to charge your smart devices and power a few LED lights.
Micro levels of electric power service might even be entirely subsidized by government as a means of encouraging people to "drop out" of high energy, high environmental cost consumer society.
Successful, comfortable, low energy lifestyles might evolve. Would you like air-conditioning? Buy the solar panels to support it, or think up other ways to stay cool. And so on...
Eventually you might end up with lifestyles where residential construction is greatly simplified and much less resource-intensive. Remodeling? Recycle all the copper wiring and coper water pipes inside the walls, replace with a single, very simple 16 gauge copper circuit and PEX water pipe.
Send the recovered copper to "developing" nations where new residential electrical and water service would be installed in a similar fashion.
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