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<blockquote data-quote="Cold Smoke" data-source="post: 4023398" data-attributes="member: 44374"><p>There’s a guy on the yoottoobs that has practical stuff for off grid power of several varieties. Engineer 775 is his channel name. There’s so many variables in stand alone power that a guy would write a book just trying to touch on the points. IMO, this green stuff doesn’t scale to grid distribution as witnessed in Texas and other places not to mention the blight these wind farms represent. However, single home to off grid farm is absolutely doable. Like someone else said, these ads all over the internet and most of the outfits selling limitless power at no cost to you are snake oil salesmen. You don’t have to be an engineer if you have a library card to do a little homework.</p><p></p><p>Forklift batteries, surplus server batteries and some of the newer scaled LiPo/LiFe batteries have great potential to make a single serve installation an around the clock proposition. First thing is defining what you want and need and build out from there.</p><p></p><p>My wife has fought me hammer and tongs for almost twenty years but given events of the last few years is now getting on board.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cold Smoke, post: 4023398, member: 44374"] There’s a guy on the yoottoobs that has practical stuff for off grid power of several varieties. Engineer 775 is his channel name. There’s so many variables in stand alone power that a guy would write a book just trying to touch on the points. IMO, this green stuff doesn’t scale to grid distribution as witnessed in Texas and other places not to mention the blight these wind farms represent. However, single home to off grid farm is absolutely doable. Like someone else said, these ads all over the internet and most of the outfits selling limitless power at no cost to you are snake oil salesmen. You don’t have to be an engineer if you have a library card to do a little homework. Forklift batteries, surplus server batteries and some of the newer scaled LiPo/LiFe batteries have great potential to make a single serve installation an around the clock proposition. First thing is defining what you want and need and build out from there. My wife has fought me hammer and tongs for almost twenty years but given events of the last few years is now getting on board. [/QUOTE]
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