The biggest problem is generating electricity. There really is no way to generate electricity quietly and efficiently yet. I can buy it for 10 cents/KWHr. That is hard to beat.
Yep, hubby and I have talked around and around and over and under moving to solar power, but it is WAY too expensive of an initial investment, takes up WAY too much space for batteries to store the power that is generated, and close to the time you’re about to break even on the cost of the initial construction versus not paying an electric bill it’s time to replace the solar panels and batteries. We have bought all the equipment and hubby is working on moving our water well to strictly solar power, and that was a pretty penny, but we feel good about having an uninterrupted water supply.