Posted on Sep 26, 2015
Many dream about it, but do you REALLY have what it takes to 'live off the grid'?
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live without having to pay for electricity, water and other services that our modern lives require? If so, do you really have what it takes to “Live off the Grid?”
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
I've jokingly thought about it but I don't think Momma would go for it! LOL
Plus, I like having Internet (how else could I enjoy RP?)!
I've jokingly thought about it but I don't think Momma would go for it! LOL
Plus, I like having Internet (how else could I enjoy RP?)!
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
Understood. My wife would do it IF we could have accommodations as pictured at the top of this thread. I'll have to save up for the personal nuclear reactor...
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PO1 John Miller
CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
Not to mention the training you would have to undertake in order to be able to maintain your reactor once it's up and running!
Not to mention the training you would have to undertake in order to be able to maintain your reactor once it's up and running!
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
PO1 John Miller - Yes, and given how I never read instruction manuals then my HOA will go nuts every time they see my backyard mushroom cloud...
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My family lived in a small two room shack in Idaho when I was a small kid. We had power, but no phone, or running water. Later we lived for a number of years in a trailer without running water. I was 17 or so the first time in my life I could shower regularly. I grew up with water in a washpan. It's also really cold having to take a dump when it's -20. You ain't lived till you've woke up in the middle of the night having to take a leak and decide that you're tired to get dressed, so walk out in calf deep snow in your skivvies to piss.
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
With current technology (composting toilets, solar/wind energy, etc.) does living off the grid appeal to you? My guess is that you would be better prepared for that lifestyle than most of us.
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS Outhouses were the original composting toilet! LOL. I think about it all the time. I don't know. Today it would be it would be fairly simple now to set up some solar panel and set up a satellite internet connection, and have a little communication with family and whatever friends you weren't trying to get away from. Would probably choose a kerosene refrigerator, though I would set up a generator too, so a guy could run power intensive items, without having to have tens of thousands of dollars in solar panels and batteries.
What actually appeals to me more, is to have enough land that I could raise much of my own food, even though I'd be completely on grid; be self sufficient enough that if the grid fell away, I wouldn't be screwed. And enough woods that I could pick the dead fall each year for firewood. Think more along the lines of how our grandparents, and great grandparents lived during the early part of the 20th century.
What actually appeals to me more, is to have enough land that I could raise much of my own food, even though I'd be completely on grid; be self sufficient enough that if the grid fell away, I wouldn't be screwed. And enough woods that I could pick the dead fall each year for firewood. Think more along the lines of how our grandparents, and great grandparents lived during the early part of the 20th century.
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
I think there is a part within us all that longs for that isolated cabin in the woods with a wood-burning stove, an everyman's fortress of solitude. Something like this:
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Some of these Little Houses and Off the Grid Ideas are just bloody brilliant. It really in some ways is kind of neat to watch the Dynamics Change. Rethinking things.
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