Terestria started as Yani Aewah, which is Laguna Pueblo for "Looking forward (as into the future)" Dave is a Registered New Mexico professional engineer, who dreamed of being a teacher in college and building such a place on a teacher's salary. Now he lives there and works to expand it full time. Eventually, a Start Engine (TM) equity crowdfunding investment and fundraising site will be set up for Friends and Family, and ultimately everyone else. Imagine "A share and a T-shirt for $20" mass promotion.

There's a demo pre-fab starter house, with the modular systems, enough to live on. We're talking $6500 for electric, including panels, 4.4kw inverter (big, whole house), charge controller, and Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries (the majority of the cost) and separately, literally $500 of cheap solar and RV pumps and tanks feeding a potassium water softener housed in a temporary water works greenhouse structure. It's nice knowing the toilets, showers, sinks and bath work even if all power gets knocked out. You're talking $20,000 and up to get a Tesla powerwall professionally installed, if you can even get one with all currently produced batteries going into vehicle production.

There's an automatic gate into the main land with a secondary manual gate for existing users. So nice when it rains! There is a buried shipping container used as a vault to store equipment and work areas, and the bubble car. It is buried using a simple retaining method that prevents it from collapsing (you can't just pile dirt up against one!)