The biggest problem to be had with off the grid living, apart from having to deal with no indoor plumbing, is the problem of how to power your home. While you may be thinking, “I don't need power, I can just use candles and heat my home with a wood stove,” in reality, that may be a much harder transition than you'd care to admit.
If you still work for a living, even if you just work from home as a writer, there's a 99% chance that you'll need power at some point to power your computer or charge your cell phone.
There are a lot of great options for running off-the-grid power. One is to use a generator, but that can get expensive and could backfire if you get snowed in.
Another is wind power, but this has an enormous upfront cost, and there is likely a few maintenance costs as well. Hydroelectric is only good if you live near a river, and that river doesn't freeze over.
What you're left with is solar. Like the wind, this can also have high upfront costs… unless you build the panels yourself.
Learn how on the next page.
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Pete Lumos Wyatt
Chris Schoen
Gets really tiring to click and add like this andwhen the page opens it has a picture and a cpl sentences and asks you to click for the next page, don’t need the information that bad!!
Russ Wallizer
Nikki Morris-Hendershott
Michelle L Adams-Piercy
PV cells still costs something. Unless you can manufacture them at home?!
I found this very interesting but it did leave a few things out they went very explicit on the order of the wires to be sordid what you do with all the panels once you get them together I think he should have gone a little bit more in depth about how to hook it all up and what it what you need what else you need to give electricity to like even a laptop thank you