A factory could be enclosed within a neat, attractive dome and its dirt, noise and vibration contained. An electric power plant could be housed within a partially underground dome. Even a waste treatment center could be built within an underground Monolithic Dome complex and its outer top surface turned into a park. Dometown, USA will have far less need for zoning restrictions. Moreover, since commercial and industrial facilities will be made attractive and planned closer to or even in the midst of residential areas, people will walk or bicycle to work.
Less traffic means better air quality, fewer accidents, and less demand for oil.
When something new comes along, our federal government usually pays little attention to it as long as it remains a novelty. Consider the airplane. As a novelty affecting a very small percentage of the population, the airplane didn t interest the government. Then the military began seeing possible uses for the airplane. Studies followed, uses developed, technology made improvements and eventually transportation, with the government s help, permanently changed.