Alternative energy is receiving huge subsidies from rate payers and taxpayers. Even with enormous subsidies alternative energy solutions are still expensive and often unreliable. If you are not connected to the grid, alternative energy generation may be a better alternative than grid connection.
Living off the grid may work for rural locations and hard core enviros but the ideas will not scale for large populations. It is a retreat to the past with a much lower standard of survival.
“Living off the grid may work for rural locations and hard core enviros but the ideas will not scale for large populations. It is a retreat to the past with a much lower standard of survival.”
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Absolutely correct!
We have a place in the sierra that uses solar for electricity, but it is only feasible because the cost of running power lines to the place would be astronomical.