The speedy unexpected connection with the rock-hard, sunbaked ground had covered me in dust and shattered two of my back teeth which fell out a couple of days later.
In the shorter run, or if trees won't work, put other types of tall plants -- giant reed, sunflowers, or even corn -- along the sunbaked sides of the house.
Solar power would obviously be best captured in the sunbaked deserts of the world... which tend to be places poorly served by the requisite gargantuan transmission corridors.
