Living Off Grid and Off Grid Power Generators
The New Trend of Living Off Grid
Modern life became heavily dependent on complex systems. We are connected to electricity lines, water lines and sewer pipes. Most of us are connected to cable TV (or dish TV) and to telephone lines; we subscribe to cell phone services and are connected to the Internet one way or another. Each of these services is supplied by a big organization, a business entity or a public entity. We are also heavily dependent on public transportation systems and on the Freeways system.
The Desire To Go Off Grid
Some of us feel inconvenience with this dependency. The systems are complex and although many safeguards are built into their operation we all remember occasional electricity and other services shutdowns. Reasons can be a momentary overload, a nature disaster, bad weather conditions or strikes. As individuals our power is small compared to the different service providers. For them we are a number on the service contract and they follow their rigid rules, backed up by batteries of lawyers. We don’t like paying the monthly bills although the bills are fair and are for a high quality well regulated product
Many of us are tired of getting on the congested roads to work. So no wonder people want to leave all this behind them. Living off grid in the fullest meaning of the term means to be autonomous in electricity supply, water supply, sewer handling and garbage disposal. For some it means getting less dependent on electricity and to build their own autonomous power system.
The Autonomous Community
If you take into account the need for human interaction and for a school, maybe one solution is to build a self sustained community. Group size of few hundred people is big enough to support autonomously its needs and it is not too intimidating to the individual.
The Off Grid Home
Many people decide to buy the land, to plan and to build their own Self Sustained Home or to join a group of off grid dreamers.
With hundreds of thousands already living off grid, plenty of magazines and articles can be found.
Popular subjects are:
Finding the real estate for an off grid home
Self supported power generation
Self supported water supply
Self supported sewage and garbage recycling or disposal
Self supported Appliances
Off urban areas style of living
Off Grid Power Generation
With the advent of clean energy power generators, may off grid homeowners tend to use off grid solar power systems and off grid wind turbines. These systems are reliable, clean, silent and almost maintenance free. The clean energy generators don’t require fossil fuels and the transportation of fuel from remote depositories. The system is backed up by a silent small diesel generator for cloudy days and for windless days.
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