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RE: Off-Grid: Rebuilding the Rocket Stove Boiler and Connecting Outdoor Plumbing for Spring Showers
Great post but that's why I could never go off the grid, to much work..
There are an ton of homesteaders here on steemit and you guys are a bloody creative and crafty lot, I've seen awesome "earthships", forges, permaculture the works.
What do you do for power and net connection when your off the the grid?
I enjoy the work - it gives me time to think about how to do the work easier :) we could use propane and a pump for the hot water, do do cook with propane, but we wanted to find an alternative way. Eventually we may heat water with other more passive methods. We have 1000 watts of solar panels, 800 amp hours of main batteries, and a gas generator and charger as a backup. We'll add more solar panels and batteries soon, as it is we only spend about $80 per year in backup generator gas, mostly in the dark 2 months of winter. We have a wifi router that gets internet from cell phone towers - we're in cottage country - 100 gigs of data per month :)