Quote from: davis196 on Today at 10:31:36 AM

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Billionaire Marc Lore is fleshing out his plan to build a utopian city called Telosa for 5 million people in the American desert

Who the hell would want to live in the American desert?
All those visionaries, who are dreaming of creating utopian cities have to pick a good location first. Creating a city in the desert has two main benefits:
1.Cheap land.
2.Sunny weather for the solar panels.
Those are the only benefits I can think of. The problems are way more:
1.The weather is going to be hot during the entire year.
2.Finding enough water supplies.
3.Finding people, who would want to live in a city in the desert.
4.Creating good infrastructure around the city.
The people, who are building such innovative cities are missing one key point. Making the city comfortable for the people that will live there.

In the illustration of the desert city. There are towers which appear to be condensation towers. They can passively generate water by cooling air through natural wind motion. Dune Sea farmers in star wars have a similar water evaporation technology used by moisture farmers.

Heat can be mitigated by building portions of a city underground. Or having good insulation and cooling. Either measure greatly reduces the amount of heating and cooling energy needed to stabilize living spaces. Resulting in living quarters that are more carbon neutral and green. As well as reducing electricity consumption.

Being located in a desert miles from civilization makes it less likely for randoms to pass through. It could make it easier to screen troublemakers and unwanteds from entering the area, engaging in crime, vandalism, theft and other undesirable activity. It could also make it easier to retain a sense of privacy. Entry to the city could be by invitation only.

They would likely cater to high end clientale with money to burn. Try to reorganize the shape of cities and civilization to produce various types of benefits.

Infrastructure these days isn't a major concern, I think. It all comes down to funding. Starting from scratch makes it easier to transition to solar, wind, hydrogen or any other form of energy. Its easier than ever with megawatt hour grid tied lithium batteries. Which were the main missing link as far as technologies like solar energy go.