Off Grid Living Thread
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If the local population aren't animals, you don't really have to go totally off grid, you should have a job and contacts.
That being said, walkable towns and cities already do half the job for you.
In certain types of cities/towns, you can own a reasonably large land, farm it, own a few animals and at the same time be in touch with some civilization (stores/ markets/electrician/cars....)
Cutting down on expenses is really the benefit;
Expensive groceries must go first: meat, eggs, fruits and veggies are all things you can easily manage yourself and store for a long period, especially If you're alone and don't have to feed a lot of people.
Electricity expenses should go second; solar panels cut expenses to almost 0, that is in sunny countries at least. In all cases, you should always have batteries for cloudy days or winter.
Water expenses should go too, dig a well and filter It, I don't really think city water in any better than high end filtered one from some random well.
This is all assuming you have the money for It, the house+land alone will cost you considerably so try to chose a country/City with reasonable land prices and sparse, friendly population. After you get a system running and maintain a normal job, you'll be very well insulated from the world and possibly have a high standard of living due to the excess money.
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Skip to the 2:00 min mark.
Proof of concept.
Donkey steam engine - builder has it hooked up to a single cylinder engine and an alternator.
But can also be hooked up to a compound engine like a marine engine and a much larger generator.
Will run on anything that will burn, and water.
Bank of batteries in the house - use golf cart batteries.
Have to make sure you have the right circuitry so you do not overcharge the battery bank - that kills batteries fast - and you'll get about 10 years out of the batteries, so store a bunch of extras.
Back this up with redundant systems of wind and solar and you'll be fine.
Donkey engine can also power things like lathes, mills, pull heavy things like logs, etc...
Ground water has a lot of dissolved minerals, etc, in it that will shit up the inside of the boiler - so either use distilled/ionized or soft water like rainwater (which is also good for making leather).
and how do you make the solar panels, batteries?
well you need to get some stuff from the shop for sure. check what you can do cheaper and/or better the rest get from the outside.
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