February 3rd, 2010
Categorized under: Renewable Energy
Off-Grid Living with Renewable Energy
Life off the electricity grid, using renewable energy, with best selling author William "Bill" Kemp and his wife, living the good life with a low impact on the planet.
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go green to save money and be free from rising energy cost of the future. The electricity companies waste 60% to 70% of what they transmit down their bad transmittion lines
proverb311031
February 3rd, 2010
i understand the technology is there and everybody has been turned off to it the majority of ur bills in a house besides the moregage is utilities = less money in your pocket some people have great jobs and cant keep up on bills cause the have so many
carnage6ar
February 3rd, 2010
can you explain to us all how you would avoid that?
dropbear22
February 3rd, 2010
paying insurance and property taxes is not living off the grid!! LOL.
dwaynec995
February 3rd, 2010
True….vegetarians would have a difficult time living in a world that has been turned upside down by a world wide catastrophe because food would be scarce, and you have to be willing to eat squirrels, doves, fish, frogs, honey bees, grasshoppers. If it moves, consider it as a source of protein.
johnny102marvin
February 3rd, 2010
not if your a vegetarian
unintentionalatheist
February 3rd, 2010
Cave dwellers will survive and city dwellers will die during a world wide catastrophe such as SOLAR MAXIMUM, Nuclear War, global panendemic, or other huge environmental changes.
johnny102marvin
February 3rd, 2010
TRUE – To be self sufficient you have to have a garden, chickens, water well, root cellar, barn, farm animals, and so on….this requires a division of labor between many people and a lot of time.
johnny102marvin
February 3rd, 2010
this is living off grid and it’s great to see what’s possible but its not self sufficient living, to be self sufficient you need a large family or a small group of people and a great deal of effort.
dirtTdude
February 3rd, 2010
Well, that sounds like a nice little accomplishment they have achieved. I dont quite think that life is for me though. They may be off the power grid but they have internet and a phone most likely. And i think the investment to start such a project would require quite a bit more money than most people have. I commend them though. Good job
xeikai
February 3rd, 2010
hardware and software design, working on your books.
of course you can develop this type of life style lol
Oh well good job on the house design.
regnarBO
February 3rd, 2010
cappuccinos taste good!
regnarBO
February 3rd, 2010
yo u must stink bro we aint in that much water neseity bro chiilll out nd take a bath i smell uu from here lmfao!!!!!!!!!!!!! :/
elplatanero145
February 3rd, 2010
These comments are amazing: Written by cave dwellers who can’t spell and ignorant as hell!
RCEbooks
February 3rd, 2010
Id kill myself due to boredom if I were these whities.
Drolkin
February 3rd, 2010
I’ll tell you where to start. I stopped bathing, and haven’t bathed in 2 years or so. I’ve taken a shower maybe once every few months, like people used to in the old days. I do the occasional sponge bath, or go into a bathroom and throw sodium laureth under my arms, if I feel I might offend someone with my stink. Then again I think people putting all that ax and oderant on themeslves, flowers, musk, all that shit, I think that shit stinks…and it personally offends me, so fuck em.
noxvet
February 3rd, 2010
start with the basics.
CPLBSS88
February 3rd, 2010
I am not saying that water isn’t recycled in many places but in the town where i live the water goes to the treatment plant & once processed it goes to the spray area which is a 200 acer piece of land
I have been there & seen the entire process i know that this is not the way it’s done in a big city but it works in the small town that i live in just fine
piglett2195
February 3rd, 2010
srry ,your mistaken,your water is recycled,not alot of people understand that but its how it works,yes some of the water comes from resiviors but not all of it, an average household of 4 people can use upto 200litres + per day Flushing,drinking,bathing/showering,etc, etc.
luvu2luvme
February 3rd, 2010
You said it perfectly.. “Many people want to live this dream they just don’t know where to start” — 100% true!! Where do I start?? :’(
hanadorii
February 3rd, 2010
I am doing much the same in Northern Ontario. Note, the lady briefly mentions they have a generator. It is hard to get away from one. As far as the drinking water, this is how a septic system works. You can be sure the water is further purified with a filter system before they consume it. I seriously doube they collect waste water in a container and process it directly.
RonaldKovacs
February 3rd, 2010
no they have a holding pond & in warm weather they have a very large area that they spray the water on . the water goes into the ground & it is obsorbed by trees & plants.I’m sure at some point it works it way back into the local water table. but it is NOT pumped back into the pond which is our source of drinking water.
I live in the lakes region of NH
there is water everywhere
piglett2195
February 3rd, 2010
no where i live the water comes from a huge pond way up in the hills.
so i am drinking rain water & probably water from underground springs that also feed the pond
piglett2195
February 3rd, 2010
i would rather live in the ditch & sleep in a cardboard box than live in a subdivision.
why would you want to live in a place where everyone but you decides what you can & can’t do?
piglett2195
February 3rd, 2010
do you realize you’re already doing that? city water is the exact thing you’re talking about.
ukumafaces
February 3rd, 2010