Living Off the Grid
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- pinkfloyd0
Yeah, designing your own home environment and furniture would be fun.
- scarabin0
there are so many fun problems to solve... irrigation, power, waste... i was telling my gf yesterday how my brain would go apeshit over building our own place in the wilderness like this
- +1Gnash
- Hey, what was the cost of your solar set-up? how many watts do you average?Gnash
- i can spend around 8,040 watts in ideal sun safely (50% battery capacity, to protect battery life). priced out the parts in my original post's commentsscarabin
- post's comments abovescarabin
- that's 8040 watts per day i meanscarabin
- cannonball19780
^^ you may want to consider an area that doesn't get snow. Not having to adapt energy usage to cyclical seasons is a plus.
- yurimon0
check this documentary.. this guy built a cabin by himself..
- ukit20
Another option might be relocate overseas somewhere where the cost of living is extremely low.
- Gnash0
i just lost out on this property:
http://rickkennedy.com/HobbyFarm…Looking at another one this weekend
- ukit20
Is your goal to escape from society, or just to save money by not having to pay rent/mortgage?
- colin_s0
alaska.
my dad has lived in a cabin in AK for 36 years. no running water. hunts for a primary source of meat (moose, sheep etc). i was born up there, go back now and again. too addicted to cities to live off the grid for now, but i fully intend on getting back to AK for awhile at some point in my life.
- scarabin0
i have an 5'x8' trailer with 15x 12v 100ah deep cycle marine batteries wired together with 3 large solar panels on top. these are connected to a 3000 watt pure sine wave ac inverter which runs power through an extension cable into my house. i'd say probably half my stuff is plugged into it.
all this power is just being beamed to us every day for free, it's so ridiculous that people pay for it
- *this post brought to you by the sunscarabin
- Nice!ukit2
- how much did the set cost you?Gnash
- Sounds dope as shit, pics? How much?utopian
- the trailer, custom, new- $6k
solar panels, 3x $120 ea
batteries 15x $170 ea
AC inverter $300scarabin - i use the trailer for storing other stuff in as well, you certainly don't it and def don't need one of that size for only 15 batteries. it's nice to be able to move the system though. i take it to burning man every yearscarabin
- nice to be able to move the system though. i take it to burning man every yearscarabin
- scarabin0
where do you guys think is the best place for this sort of thing? oregon?
where is land cheap?
- OREGON, WASHINGTON, CALIFORNIAutopian
- I'd look for wilderness and check property friendly homestead laws or areas.yurimon
- I look for more mountain areas could be west coast or east coast. no areas with water issuesyurimon
- Also look for great neighbors or community even if you are in seclusion. town is important.yurimon
- dont want crabs in your life or shity sherif, law enforcementyurimon
- california land is not cheap unless you are inland in a desert area.cannonball1978
- utopian0
Dick Proenneke went way of the grid...
- yurimon0
Check out homesteading, some states have good laws on it.
I've seen some nice setups in my travel in mountain areas where you have no water issues in the states. technology to support it is better then ever. If you get a nice set up with micro hydro. sheeeeyT...
- Krassy0
Brilliant and Bizarre Off-the-Grid Green Designs and Technologies
http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2…
- bored2death0
I'm a designer. I make my living off the grid.
- utopian0
Living "off the grid" is illegal in some U.S. states.