When COVID hit, almost overnight there was an exodus from urban areas.
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We asked him: how can the average techie live off-grid?
Power
When it comes to actually powering your off-grid home, there are a few different options.
Your traditional Dutch row house, made out of brick, is an energy sieve.
Solar panels allow you to capture sunlight, convert it into electricity, and store it in a battery.
This means [people living off-grid are] able to reduce their overall energy usage.
Theyre a little more expensive, and the efficiency isnt quite there yet, but theyre getting better.
The point is they can be a supplement to battery storage when you dont get much sun.
The past few years has also seen a swathe of smart composting tech thats far less smelly.
If youre considering wind turbines, its worth looking through local government guidelines, like theU.S.
Electric vehiclesthemselves can also be used as power sources by acting as bidirectional chargers.
Food and waste
Living off-grid can also extend to creating a self-sustaining food source.
You replace, wherever possible, the foliage with things that you’ve got the option to eat.
Over a period of time these orchards and food forests really start to produce and over produce.
Boiling water is slow and inefficient considering how much you need on a daily basis.
This also has a profound social impact.
We see that in our community.
The animal waste is actually a food and nutrition source for vermiculture.
Anaerobic digestion kicks in.
You also get heat and energy from anaerobic digestion produced by compost piles.
They then become the perfect food for the chickens, fish, and other small animals.
So its really an amazing circle of life.
Several blogs about off-grid living have reviews of variouswaterfiltrationmethodsand hardware.
Buckminster Fuller, an American architect, once said:
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
