off grid

Not posting as a how to (although you can certainly come up with some ideas from watching), simply posting as entertainment. 50 years living off grid on a remote island in Orkney My parents have been farming a rare breed of seaweed-eating sheep on a remote island in Scotland called Auskerry for...

Rooftop Solar Power Has a Dark Side Leased solar systems are failing across America https://time.com/6317339/rooftop-solar-power-failure/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

Saw this posted on another forum this morning. I don't usually watch videos, but this one got my attention.

Crazy. http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/02/22/court-rules-off-the-grid-living-is-illegal/

I thought we already had a thread on these, but I can't find it. Pretty cool story:

Well, things are looking up for fusor farm these days. I've invested in more solar gear to go from "enough" to "no question there's way more than I need". All I have to do now is get all those panels up into the sky, though they are lashed up electrically in the garden now, and today I found...

I really like this idea for homes that significantly reduce your power consumption requirements (and which make comfortable off-grid living more practical): DIY construction with tires and dirt: http://earthship.com/ Monolithically poured concrete shell construction...