Tag: electricity storage

  • Self-sufficiency vs self-reliance off the grid

    The more I learn about modern survival and being prepared for SHTF (which is one of the reasons I want to live off-grid), the more interesting concepts I undertand. Not being english native for some time I didn’t get the difference between self-sufficiency and self-reliance. It took me some time, and now it’s clear. You […]

  • How I spent summer off-grid holiday and loved it!

    For those of you who read my blog for a while it won’t be a surprise when I write that I own a Volkswagen Vanagon Camper (RV) and spend some time camping in it each summer. This year I had my first fully off-grid holiday. Last year I connected the camper to the mains on […]

  • Produce, save, store!

    If you want power your off-grid home by yourself, you need to look at this idea on three levels: producing the energy in any source, reducing the energy use, storing it for future when supply exceeds demand. There are only two ways to deal with this problem with one simple solution. But none of them […]