Monday, February 4, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
GreenSpace: Homeowner is off the grid - and feeling quite empowered
Posted on Mon, Feb 04, 2013
He did it to be sustainable. To be self-reliant. Then there was the philosophical side, the pure satisfaction of it all.
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:57 AM, 02/04/2013
    It appears that he is single. Put in a wife children (girls) couple of hair dryers then kiss your solar panels thank them for a job well done and start negotiations with your elec. supplier for rates. I bet he eats allot of dried foods and room temperature drinks.
    — mistro
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:12 AM, 02/04/2013
    This is a nice little project. And it shows how much farther "green" energy needs to go. If you need to plan around sunshine (in the NE, none the less) to do anything, you're just feeding some weird fetish in your head. Where's the wind turbine, the bio-gas generator, the geothermal system? No river/creek nearby to run a water mill? Why isn't the house built halfway into the side of the hill? Cellphone- you think they don't have outages? Get a satphone. Stop with articles on these 1/2 baked ideas. Come back when you find an actual useful house that can live off the grid.
    — verve
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:59 AM, 02/04/2013
    he should look into some type of biodiesel generator to top off the batteries on the cloudy days. Also lister peter diesels can run on straight veggie oil
    — Tom813


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