&;-)I didn't check out the links posted with the articles (yet) so I didn't get the take on the tree-hugger slant.
Before everyone goes off here, remember that being self-sufficient is a good conservative trait.
Case in point from TODAY. My friend lives down in the city limits where there are water restrictions. He has rigged up some 55-gallon drums and a pump on his truck and gets water from the river to water his grass. His neighbor ratted him out to the city and when the 'water police' showed up, he pointed to his truck with the barrels on it with a pump feeding his sprinklers and they both had a good laugh at the socialist-let-the-nanny-state-take-care-of-everything-liberal neighbor who ratted him out in the first place.
Wonder if there will be happy endings like that under TIPS?
I agree, from the standpoint of all the brain damage that is obviously involved in getting totally off the grid right now. That said, this stuff is interesting as a back up power source. PV bears watching; it's conceivable that within my lifetime, it could truly (not a Green's analysis), economically replace central station power for residences in parts of the U.S.
I'm glad there are people out there like this guy, willing to be the arrows-in-the-back pioneers. As long as they don't want to force me to go along with them.
&;-)Uh, nice try, but this guy lives in TEXAS......
system only costs me about $250 for the Golf Cart Batteries, then there was $61 for the Inverter, and another $67 for the Battery Charger... and this simple, (and cheap) investment provides my home with some power during any storm, or hurricane (I live in Houston), or any future problem that may happen to the grid. In fact, I could provide myself, this limited power for several days if there was a prolonged power interuption.