Ask HN: Is my notion of a mostly grid-independent workshop insane or acceptable?

Disclaimer: trying to find people to collaborate with in addition to soliciting opinions (anyone who owns land in CA might be interested as well) I am planning on buying a parcel of land in California where I can move my workshop and general operation (power and water as well as broadband but not much else). My business goal is to develop new technology in the consumer realm - or possibly just find any other simple things I enjoy to generate income if needed. My personal goal is to spend every day learning more science and engineering, and making new things. There is a lot of equipment at my disposal which I have in my current workspace: circuits, physics, chem, etc. I want to create a space on some relatively open land for experimentation, a place for other people to come and enjoy potentially, and a good general place where knowledge and innovation are embraced. I don't profess to be an expert in anything in life anymore, although software development is what I worked in for a long time - but I have a long way to go in software and I have started learning from the ground up with basic logic circuits. I like Scala/functional code and have worked in many web-heavy languages like php and JS as well as objective C, C, etc, I have AWS experience, linux oriented, pentesting, etc. Just starting to get more into R, statistics and machine learning. I've been studying a lot more electronic engineering and electrodynamics (which undergrad had given me a decent foundation in). I've created many interesting prototypes and have many concepts written out in great detail - I'd like to develop some of these out and explore new areas as well. Any advice would be great - bringing any pitfalls to my attention which I would do well to avoid would be much appreciated. Also if anyone wants to collaborate in any way, get in touch ASAP.