The Realities of Living Off Grid
While I would love to buy some land in the middle of nowhere and build a small cabin myself, the fact is that is a lofty goal that may never happen. Instead, we need to look for ways we can...
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Power Demands Off Grid
We want to have land and a house and a place to have a garden to grow our own food as well as some animals to reduce our dependency on anyone else. We have a meager income, but if we...
An Outline to go Off Grid
While we are stable in our current location, we will not be here forever. We've looked into ways to go off grid, how to afford it, how to make it happen, what we all need. Our demands for physical objects...
What is the next step in our journey?
We've owned our 1988 Tiffin Allegro for two years now. We moved in over a year and a half ago and have plenty of issues. Our journey took us from Wisconsin to Florida, back north to Kentucky and again south...
Getting Started Off Grid
Sounds easy enough, living off grid. Have a house with its own water and power supply along with a way to deal with waste. However, when living on limited income with very little collateral and nothing to work with, things...
Food Preparation Off Grid
As I discussed in an early post, we have a lot of technology to power. Those devices and electrical demands are all for ways to make money, entertain ourselves, and communicate with the outside world. The topic of this entry...
A Plan for Going Off Grid
We have a rather large roof on our 1988 Tiffin Allegro. The RV is 33 feet long with a solid aluminum roof, much of it free of anything. If we want to put solar panels on it, I'm sure there...
A Brief Exploration of Power Demands
To start with this, I'm going to delve into our power requirements of one simple subset of the whole system: Computers and internet access. I have not used anything to determine how much power everything uses yet, so I am...
Off Grid Power Requirements
I want to figure out exactly how much power we use a month in our RV and then figure out how to reduce that amount and prepare for living off grid on a solar and wind system. That means breaking...
Getting Fresh Water Off Grid
To live off grid in a house we build ourselves, there are many things we need. We have some items that can be used and adapted, but there are still a lot of things we need to get and prepare...