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Can you live Off-Grid?

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Alex, and his husband, live "off-grid", in rural California. I'm impressed by his knowledge and ingenuity to be self-sufficient, more or less.
He is certainly better at roughing-it than I am, so I'm posting an Alex video on portable electrical power generation.

This not the typical truck review. At almost 30 minutes, this is a long video.
But Alex compares his home power generator to the Ford F-150 Hybrid's on-board power take-off.

 
I had to logoff, my keyboard went wacko!

According to Alex, the truck's onboard inverter puts out similar electrical power to a mobile power station, but uses less petrol per hour to do it.
 
Back in 1984, the power went out for three days following a winter storm across the Seattle area.

By day three, things were starting to get awful around the neighborhood.

Without electricity, life gets very real, very fast!
 
/\ People often say that about the Amish and the Mennonite who sometimes use tractors and generators.

But to them, it's about not being physically connected or obligated to the power grid/company/outside world. They maintain their independence and control.


And being connected to a grid often means getting charged a monthly bill even when that connection is not being used.
 
Of course, I am only assuming that most people know what a power grid is.
 
I know people who live off grid. It isn't that difficult if you have the up-front capital.

Solar collectors, windmills, ground source heat pumps, battery storage and all electric (small and efficient) vehicles make it easy as pie.



But if you own a hybrid truck....it is all a bit of a joke, isn't it?
 
rareboy said:
I know people who live off grid. It isn't that difficult if you have the up-front capital.

Solar collectors, windmills, ground source heat pumps, battery storage and all electric (small and efficient) vehicles make it easy as pie.



But if you own a hybrid truck....it is all a bit of a joke, isn't it?
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American sustainability.
 
My mother and her family all lived off grid back in the 1920's about 20 miles outside of Bemidji Mn. No phone, lights, plumbing heat ect. They carried water, chopped wood and hunted for food. The idea of being off grid today is like those who go camping in their $80,000 rigs.
 
rareboy said:
I know people who live off grid. It isn't that difficult if you have the up-front capital.

Solar collectors, windmills, ground source heat pumps, battery storage and all electric (small and efficient) vehicles make it easy as pie.



But if you own a hybrid truck....it is all a bit of a joke, isn't it?
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I would point out that the amount of resources and manufacturing from a global array of sources is about the same as having a hybrid extended pick-up truck in terms of impact on the environment.

I have known back in the 1970's some real back to earther hippies who did it honestly. Bought nothing first hand, lived in a sod house made with found and discarded materials, grew everything and ate only off the land and from the water, only used candles made from the wax and fat they rendered. I lost track of them, but would like to think they stayed with it and didn't end up as venture capitalists in a penthouse somewhere when they finally had had enough.
 
technically, as a city boy, I should expect to be dead within a week.

But Im hot and resourceful, I'll find someone to mooch off of. I will trade blowjobs for every necessity or commodity.
 
fabulouslyghetto said:
technically, as a city boy, I should expect to be dead within a week.

But Im hot and resourceful, I'll find someone to mooch off of. I will trade blowjobs for every necessity or commodity.
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I like the way you're thinking.
 
rareboy said:
I like the way you're thinking.
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Im not above sexual favors as a means of survival. Its actually a fantasy of mine.

But seriously, us cityfolk pay other people to do virtually everything we would have to know how to do to survive, i cant grow shit, chop trees, after killing game i dunno how to de-fur or clean or anything, i dunno which berries or frogs are poisonous, i have 0 survival skills except this throat. :rotflmao:

If theres no mountain man around in need of a bj, Im dead.
 
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