The solar technology is vastly improved in the last few years and it will become even better very shortly with a new battery design that is going to be announced very shortly. In fact watch for Tesla to make an announcement any day now as they are deep into it, it was recently patented by a group that is out of Portugal and Texas. The man who created the lithium ion battery is a professor at the University of Texas and he is heading up this new battery. Rumored to have 1,000 times the capacity of a similar size lithium ion battery and longer range capabilities in vehicles. That is the reason Telsa has started construction on a new truck plant in south east Austin, Texas. They said it was because of Covid and taxes in California but the truth will come out very soon.
The best thing about this new battery besides the performance and charging (very fast) is that it doesn't contain any high cost materials. The Achilles heel for electric vehicles thus far has been the size and cost of the batteries and unlike the lithium ion battery this battery has no chance of sparking a fire or blowing up. It will be the catalyst to making electric vehicles main stream in my estimation.
I've been studying building with aircrete and dome style homes for several years so we have plans already drawn of how we want to build it. The main concern is water but solar wells are viable and I rep a line of pumps that started back long ago, 1866, and we have these pumps. The company is the one the started the windmill type pumps and some are still in use today. The cost to drill the wells is pretty expensive as the average depth in that area is 3,000 to 3,500 feet. The well could be more expensive than the property if we only buy 10 acres or less.
Have to run now, thanks for all the support and hopefully i can get back to reading your new book soon.
Sult