Interesting "Off the Grid Article" for Australia:
I love solar! As I learn more about it, how logical it becomes to use the energy of our star and not the dreaded corporate crap! Forbes article you may enjoy :::
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LS,
Interesting comments above!
My comments above earlier were kindof in relation to living off the grid in an RV, since this is an RV forum.
Regarding non-RV off the grid living, I have a philosophical take on intentional, so-called "off the grid living" that I won't get into ... as it's very idealistic and subtle and in no way would be bought into by most folks.
What I will add is that we - almost by accident - wound up in a living situation very similar to what you describe that you have, but just outside of Silicon Valley. The way I describe our situation is "we live in an island bubble surrounded by a sea of chaos". We have superbly moderate weather, a meadow, blue skies, clean air, a well, a spring, a large propane tank, a state of the art heatpump, backup generators, plenty of greenery and trees, nearly full-time quietness and serenity... and all of this only a couple of miles from a dentist office and a well stocked country grocery store where they know myself and my family by name. However, in order to leave our bubble and it's surrounding couple of miles anytime other than between 10 AM and 3 PM on weekdays ... requires creeping along in bumper-to-bumper "chaos". (It's a good thing we're retired so 10 AM to 3 PM weekdays is doable.)
In relation to RV off the grid living, I have an observation regarding one of your statements above - "Well, knowledge of First Aid is helpful. It’s not too often that really bad things happen and, when they do, why wait for the first responders to show up and pronounce you dead?"
Have you ever went through multiple in-a-row kidney stone attacks, and/or have you ever went through multiple-in-a-row gall bladder stone attacks? The pain from either is excruciating and requires as-soon-as-possible immediate attention. With no warning during the preceding decades of my life, I have been very painfully surprised by both since last October and it took strong prescription pain pills and surgery to fix both situations. I WOULD NOT have wanted to be living really off the grid - in an RV or otherwise - any more so than we already do when these couple of health emergencies occured.
These two incidences so shook us up that we're seriously considering a satellite communication device and helicopter medical evacution insurance for when we're out in the middle of nowhere way off the grid in our RV camping and looking for rocks.
Interesting comments above!
My comments above earlier were kindof in relation to living off the grid in an RV, since this is an RV forum.
Regarding non-RV off the grid living, I have a philosophical take on intentional, so-called "off the grid living" that I won't get into ... as it's very idealistic and subtle and in no way would be bought into by most folks.
What I will add is that we - almost by accident - wound up in a living situation very similar to what you describe that you have, but just outside of Silicon Valley. The way I describe our situation is "we live in an island bubble surrounded by a sea of chaos". We have superbly moderate weather, a meadow, blue skies, clean air, a well, a spring, a large propane tank, a state of the art heatpump, backup generators, plenty of greenery and trees, nearly full-time quietness and serenity... and all of this only a couple of miles from a dentist office and a well stocked country grocery store where they know myself and my family by name. However, in order to leave our bubble and it's surrounding couple of miles anytime other than between 10 AM and 3 PM on weekdays ... requires creeping along in bumper-to-bumper "chaos". (It's a good thing we're retired so 10 AM to 3 PM weekdays is doable.)
In relation to RV off the grid living, I have an observation regarding one of your statements above - "Well, knowledge of First Aid is helpful. It’s not too often that really bad things happen and, when they do, why wait for the first responders to show up and pronounce you dead?"
Have you ever went through multiple in-a-row kidney stone attacks, and/or have you ever went through multiple-in-a-row gall bladder stone attacks? The pain from either is excruciating and requires as-soon-as-possible immediate attention. With no warning during the preceding decades of my life, I have been very painfully surprised by both since last October and it took strong prescription pain pills and surgery to fix both situations. I WOULD NOT have wanted to be living really off the grid - in an RV or otherwise - any more so than we already do when these couple of health emergencies occured.
These two incidences so shook us up that we're seriously considering a satellite communication device and helicopter medical evacution insurance for when we're out in the middle of nowhere way off the grid in our RV camping and looking for rocks.
