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land and I think they're all safe so you'll be safe. Just sleep in the street. Weather's great. Well there was a Korean air flight that had a scare, dropped 27,000 feet in 15 minutes, injured 17 people. Let's see what kind of airplane type is that. It's a Boeing 737 Max 8. Now I have a suggestion. I'm not like an engineer or anything so I can't really help Boeing in their engineering and their sa…

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own benefits by selling their extra capacity and indeed they might actually put a second power plant there if they had connection to the grid of course and then they would sell the excess capacity.

So what you would do is start with a city where the people living there had already bought into the idea that they would be in the general area of a nuclear power plant but in return their electricity would be almost free. And it would be a business. In other words everybody who lived there would be basically a shareholder in the electric production. Now why should they be shareholders? They absolutely should be because they're taking any risk of being near one. If you're going to tell me to live within two miles of a nuclear power plant no matter how safe it is, and by the way it's really safe now, I'm still going to be thinking about it. So if you want me to move there maybe I need a piece of the action and I think that could be arranged.

I also think that the new city should be its own insurance company for every element of insurance. Maybe not medical but all the physical stuff, you know your car insurance, your house insurance, your business insurance. It should all be done by the city that you live in and it should be a co-op so that if you make extra money it goes back into the city. So the things that the city should do for itself are electricity, making a profit. It should put in its own Wi-Fi so that nobody's really paying for Wi-Fi, it's just a city-provided service. You should build the city so the transportation is practically free which could be electric cabs that

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you use but you could walk everywhere. There's good mass transit but you could pretty well start from scratch and develop a city that would be almost free. You've seen the little Tesla houses that have a Tesla battery pack but also a Tesla roof. There's zero energy. You can do it that way as well. You could build it so that every house is self-sufficient independently. So the future of building ne…

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