[Red Badger]

VIDEO AT LINK and PICS....................

[V_TWIN]

Quick.......somebody get that man a covid shot!!!

[Jonty30]

If you have created a good life, as you define it, for 46 years, offgrid, shut up.

Speaking up just made you a target of authorities who will now take it away from you.

[BipolarBob]

A SWAT TEAM will bust in and do a wellness check on him and he may/may not survive their concern.

[z3n]

Democrats would tax someone like this.
They would say, you cannot use the rays of the sun, the falling water, or the running streams for your own benefit.

Why?

The same people who try to tell us “we” need ‘renewable’ energy are the ones who want to be the gatekeepers of it.... for the sake of political power

[Tell It Right]

I’ve seen a few interesting videos of people making power with more modern water turbines. But those are for people who have a lot of flow and/or head (drop in height of the water).

[butlerweave]

Does he pull his own teeth with pliers ?

[logi_cal869]

In other news...

Authorities visit ‘Al’ and his property, confiscate the illegal waterwheel, and red flag his cabin for lack of building permits and public services.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I predict that old Al will come to regret allowing this video to be made. The state and local authorities will now destroy his life with all sorts of inspections and citations for violating this or that code.

I knew someone in SW Oregon who set up a small waterwheel generator in a creek on his property. The device didn’t interfere with any fish movement, stream flow, or anything else, but the state made him remove it.

[4yearlurker]

If he uses a laptop to watch the news,then he is not completely off the grid.

[Jotmo]

What?

An unauthorized electrical generating plant on public waterway?

The jack booted EPA thugs will be by pronto to put the kibosh on that.

How dare he ignore all regulations an proper legal procedures for building such a structure? Who does he think he is. Only the Feds get to do that.

[Robert DeLong]

He seems to have everything he needs, and looks like a very healthy capable 82 year old as well. Of course his companionship seems to be lacking. Not a life for everyone, but it seems to work for him. At least I imagine it’s a stress free life in many ways.

[lee martell]

“Mr. Al, we are from the Government, and we’re here to “help” you!”.

[Dahoser]

Dick Proenneke beat him to it by 30 years. Alone in the Wilderness is an amazing documentary.

[GOPJ]

Sounds nice- what’s his freeper handle?

[sergeantdave]

This thread is the perfect example of why FR is dying. It’s post after post of negative bullshit, completely ruining a positive story. Who the hell wants to read hundreds of posts daily from cynical old goats who want to see the world burn?

[Karliner]

They’ll force a psych exam, deem him crazy and toss hm in a nursing home for his own safety.

[Big Red Badger]

Either a Stil or pot farm
in them thar Hills.

[Vaduz]

John Wayne gives hat tip to Outdoorsman Al stars.

[Chuckster]

Not as remarkable (Or unusual) as city dwellers down South might think.

[Sequoyah101]

Nobody will read, nobody that does read that matters will believe or care but; this is one man living a sparse but satisfying life, for him, in an ideal location for what he is doing. In a nation of 350,000,000 people it would take 21.8 million square miles for each of us to have his own little bit of self-sustaining solitude. In the whole of the lower 48 states there are only 3.1 million square miles in total; seven times less than what is needed of these ideal locations of which only a very few exist since more than half of our land mass is some form of desert or prairie.

Nothing was said about how he feeds himself so that is extra done from somewhere.

Utopia does not exist. If it does, there is not enough of it to go around.

Peddle the BS somewhere else.

Anyone who thinks that renewable or sustainable is sustainable or reliable is FOS and a lame brain.