We are going to build a new city in the American desert
Palmyra
A city powered by renewable energy
A city whose citizens share in its profits
A city that gives free power to all businesses
A city that offers free rent to its employees
A city that will thrive on other worlds
Why Build Palmyra?
We will build it to prepare for survival on other worlds
Places where we will need electricity to
Extract drinking water from Hydrous minerals
Construct shelter immediately
Provide heat and light to grow food
Recharge the batteries of large and small devices
Think about a power supply
I am quite sure it will not be profitable to ship coal to Mars
no matter how clean the coal is
So
We need to perfect a working model of Palmyra
A city that will function on any scale
A city that will thrive on various habitable worlds
that will require a wide variety of renewable power supplies
It's quite possible we will need to live underground
We will need a dependable source of energy when we arrive
We will have to bring what we need with us