Living Off the Grid – Live Where You Want

Living off the grid vastly expands your choices of where to live…most of us are tied to utility companies powerlines, phone lines, sewer lines, gas lines,and water lines.

The easiest yoke to remove is the phone line. Well over 30% of the population uses cell phones exclusively… so if you want to live out in the country and are in range of a cell phone companies tower…you can stay in communication with friends and family by phone or over the Internet.

Freedom from the sewer line, can be accomplished with a septic tank. Check with your local municipality to get the rules and regulations of providing your own waste treatment.

Freedom from the water line can be accomplished by drilling your own well.

As far as gas goes… a propane tank takes care of that problem. Many do not realize that propane can power your refrigerator…but it can.

So far so good, living off the grid is doable…

You are now left with producing your own electricity. It is not as difficult as you might imagine. The most common ways to do so are with wind and solar power. The sun and the wind are free and solar panels and wind generators enable you to harness the energy they provide.

The power generated from solar panels and wind generators is direct-current. You will need an inverter to change the direct-current into the alternating current we need to power our appliances. A battery bank, is useful to store the power you are generating when the sun shines and the wind blows.

If you are the type of person who is independent and a lover of personal freedom… Living off the grid is something you should take a good look at.

You can also expect that the federal and state governments will be giving more incentives to folks that generate their own power. Our dependence on foreign oil, including the huge burden this places on our military, cannot continue… Democrat and Republican alike agree on this fact… So look for more subsidies for people that generate their own electricity.