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Off-Grid Living with Renewable Energy
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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.
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.
25 Comments
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:48 am
@dwaynec995 you cant avoid paying property tax. without loosing you house or goin to jail. somethin like that
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:12 am
@dwaynec995 i can see not paying insurance. but how you cant not pay property tax..
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:45 am
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
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:58 am
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
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:14 am
can you explain to us all how you would avoid that?
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:03 am
paying insurance and property taxes is not living off the grid!! LOL.
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:39 am
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.
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:39 am
not if your a vegetarian
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:19 am
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.
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:52 am
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.
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:44 am
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.
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:08 am
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
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:49 am
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.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:14 am
cappuccinos taste good!
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:24 am
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!!!!!!!!!!!!! :/
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:48 am
These comments are amazing: Written by cave dwellers who can’t spell and ignorant as hell!
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:35 am
Id kill myself due to boredom if I were these whities.
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:57 am
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.
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:59 am
start with the basics.
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:46 am
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
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:51 am
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.
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:13 pm
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?? :’(
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:44 pm
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.
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:29 pm
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
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:05 pm
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