Wind and solar are obvious solutions for electricity. If you can grow oil crops like soybeans or Jatropha, you can press oil for use in diesel generators, you would want to turn some of the oil into bio-diesel to start and purge the engine with as both the engine and the oil must be heated or they will gum up. You could also make ethanol out of crops and run gasoline powered generators. One advantage of gasoline generators are that they will run on propane and it's easy to get propane trucked in and stored in underground tanks plus propane doesn't go bad when stored for long periods of time.
Homesteading in remote locations takes a fair amount of cash to get set up.
There is lots of wind so a windmill generator is the only way to go. And since water is right below the sand you will need to dig. You could of course dig down 30 feet and then put up retainer walls to keep the rock and sand back. You will be able to cover the entire area where your house and yard are with some reflective cloth. That will help kept the temp lower. and since your 30 feet deep water will not be that far away. you will also be camo so people can't see your home at night and rob you.
Try solar or wind power? They're both quite abundant in the desert. As for water, people usually just settle at an oasis, but if not, yes you will have to dig a well or get water pumped.
Try reverse diffusion which has been very successful in LA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_dif...
huge coal power plant
Texas, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico.... I'm not talking about some little subdivision. I mean if someone were to buy like 20 acres off in the middle of nowhere. Is there a way besides buying a generator and spending $20,000 on digging a well to get lights and water? Thanks
