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Going Off-Grid in the 21st Century – Options for Power Generation

Just as quick recap, in the last few posts we started off by specifying the “what we want to do”, followed up by the three most common stumbling blocks people run into & worked on getting a realistic initial sizing requirement for our electrical needs. Unlike the last two articles, that have seemingly been more […]

Filed Under: Alternative Energy, Off-Grid Living Tagged With: Solar Power, Wind Power September 8, 2011 By SLS

Going Off-Grid in the 21st Century, Initial Calculations for Sizing

When we first started this series of going off-grid, we started off with Craig Leisher & his family deciding to do exactly that. While him and his wife Susannah decided to pare down there power requirements to just include enough for 2 laptops, a cell phone, and the satellite internet system – we decided to […]

Filed Under: Alternative Energy, Off-Grid Living Tagged With: Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Wind Power September 1, 2011 By SLS

Going Off-Grid in the 21st Century – 3 Main Stumbling Block’s

If you mention to anyone that you are planning or going off the grid, the first thing (and sometimes only thing) that comes to most peoples mind is ditching the power company. Some individuals I have talked with in the past get a funny little gleam in their eyes & talk about “sticking it to […]

Filed Under: Alternative Energy, Off-Grid Living Tagged With: Solar Power, Wind Power August 25, 2011 By SLS

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