Maybe I'm looking at it backwards, but I always thought that going off-grid was necessitated by moving to someplace that isn't in the middle of civilization.. That is to say, the reward is that you don't have to live in the middle of Seattle or one of its suburbs... You could live deep in the Omaks and have 200 acres of land. For most of us, the places that we live are foremost limited by where civilization already has foothold. But if you are willing to live off-grid, all you need is the most basic sort of road to your land. Sounds pretty nice to me, actually.. (This from a man whose foremost concern when purchasing his house was the quality of the available broadband connection [fiber]). :D
-Adam On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought about going solar as well. Perfect roof for it as well, except > Seattle area. > > It was cost prohibitive though. :( > Meanning, I have the cash to pay for it, but it would take 9-10 years to > repay for itself with all the rebates and incentives, but that doesn't > include the possible maintenance and repairs. > > An investment I am in is paying 14% and with compounded interest (solar you > are forced to do this since you can't take out what you make back), it take > less than 5 years. > > Has anyone found a true reason to get solar other than the kewlness of > having it on the roof? (Meaning a differnent reason that being forced > because of location - middle of dessert) > > Michail > > > In a message dated 1/2/2011 11:07:30 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Mostly off grid power projects for me, since I moved off the grid 18 months > > ago. PV arrays and wind turbines have been sucking up a lot of time, as > well > as working on a gasifier. > > Did play with nixies some, added a IR motion detector to my nixie clock so > it only displays the time if someone is near it. I need to save every watt > I > can! > > Happy new year to all! > > Jonathan > www.madlabs.info > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<neonixie-l%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
