Desert living: sunshine and hydrogeology
Aug. 26th, 2016 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcIn considering future abodes and climate change I have wondered how livable various regions are for those who have First World levels of income.
To take an extreme example I rather like the Sonoran Desert. It cools at night and one gets a beautiful view of a starry sky. Especially with climate change and the potential for concomitant social unrest, goodness knows how truly sustainable life there will be over this century.
I can naively imagine that with a decent drilled well and some sun pipes one may even successfully cultivate vegetables in subterranean rooms but certainly surface rooms with roofs of EFTE film or suchlike should allow horticulture even if airflow is required to dump some of the heat.
Wondering about the water, I did some research online and I get the impression that $10k to $20k buys a decent well and if one sites one's property around woody shrubs and similar then the water table probably isn't far off. To what extent it remains such in the longer term is an interesting question; perhaps it helps not to live somewhere others will find desirable or there may someday be rather more wells competing for that same water.
Of course, thinking of desert living makes me then wonder how solar concentrator approaches trade off against solar panels for generation of abundant electricity.
To take an extreme example I rather like the Sonoran Desert. It cools at night and one gets a beautiful view of a starry sky. Especially with climate change and the potential for concomitant social unrest, goodness knows how truly sustainable life there will be over this century.
I can naively imagine that with a decent drilled well and some sun pipes one may even successfully cultivate vegetables in subterranean rooms but certainly surface rooms with roofs of EFTE film or suchlike should allow horticulture even if airflow is required to dump some of the heat.
Wondering about the water, I did some research online and I get the impression that $10k to $20k buys a decent well and if one sites one's property around woody shrubs and similar then the water table probably isn't far off. To what extent it remains such in the longer term is an interesting question; perhaps it helps not to live somewhere others will find desirable or there may someday be rather more wells competing for that same water.
Of course, thinking of desert living makes me then wonder how solar concentrator approaches trade off against solar panels for generation of abundant electricity.
