Off-grid: disconnected from utilities
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Natural Gas (Wikipedia)
Natural gas is used in many homes to fuel furnaces, stoves, cookstoves and preparing domestic hot water. It’s relatively easy to be delivered to your home (if you have a natural gas pipeline near), very easy to use and clean to burn. Burning natural gas produces almost only water vapor and carbon dioxide, with small […]
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Off the water supply network – introduction
Water is supplied to many homes via water supply network. But it might be quite easy to get your water elsewhere, even if you’re living in an urban area.
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Keeping room temperature — introduction
In almost all modern homes the most energy is used to keep the room temperature on the desired level. It includes both heating in winter and air conditioning in summer. In some climates you need only one of those, in temperate climates you need both. For example, in Poland we have annual mean temperatures close […]
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Off the electrical grid – introduction
This is the first post in a series of how to live off the electrical grid. In the series I will answer the following questions: how to make electric energy from various sources (photovoltaics, wind turbines, internal combustion engines, fuel cells, etc.), how to store electricity to use it later, how to save electricity, in […]
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Why live off the grid?
If you talk about living off the grid with someone who is not familiar with the concept, his first question will probably be: “Why do you want to live off the grid?“. Here’s a couple of good reasons that might justify living without usind public utilities. First and the most obvious answer is
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