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5 Things For Solar Power
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An American Homestead
(IC: blogger)
$4000
2 Days
Medium
We live in an off-grid homestead deep within the American Ozarks. Having power put in on our location was simply out of the question financially. My family actually prefers to live without electricity.
Our houses don’t use electricity. We have manufactured homes. They were built off-site and assembled on-site. That means they are completely wired for electric hookups. However, at this point, there is nothing hooked up to them. That is fine as far as we are concerned for now.
Our houses don’t use electricity. We have manufactured homes. They were built off-site and assembled on-site. That means they are completely wired for electric hookups. However, at this point, there is nothing hooked up to them. That is fine as far as we are concerned for now.
We have two solar setups on the homestead. One is being used to generate electricity for the greenhouse and fish pumps for the aquaponics system. The second system is generating electricity for our office. The office is basically a 16ft pull behind trailer that we converted into an office. It’s used to charge our cell phones, laptops, phone line, wireless router and DSL modem.
Electricity from the grid is cheap! When I say the grid, I mean your local power company. In the US, the average price for power is around $0.12 per 1000 watts (1kwh). The reason people think their electric bill is so high is because they have a million+ appliances hooked up. Go around your house and count how many things you have plugged in.
To learn more about the 5 things you need for your Solar Set-up, visit the blog post link below from An American Homestead.
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Published July 21st, 2014 3:44 PM
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