Does anyone have anything to share about off grid living?
Me, I am a big fan of lithium as a main power source. I am trying DHGate for that. It seems to be the best prices, lets see if it gets here.
What are people actively doing to engage their community in an autonomous way? Im curious. Does anyone have any creative ideas that stand out?
I can't speak for our man @paradiseranch and his thought process but presuming that we are talking in terms of north America, which is where most of us live, the various incarnations of European from single family to a small community level (like some of our anabaptist groups practice today) seem an obvious loose model...our own historical farming having grown out of them after all. I can see if your local ecology supports rice paddies or sugar cane fields then yeah, certainly look to other models. Just a little unsure why some of the various European models would not translate well given that they have previously done so.
That being said, I think it would be silly to not incorporate some of the more recent developments. The first thing that comes to my mind is mob grazing for example. Higher carrying capacity being music to the small homesteaders ears obviously.
ya but they went back. you think europeans invented the concept of a community garden and/or agriculture? they just commodified it.
to your question, american individualism is the key in unlocking individual control. the plastic state pays the middle man well.
no, the europeans definitely did not invent it. they just picture-storytimed it and made it into a dollar value. all your astrology comes from African literature, moon cycles in coordination with crop cycles. the europeans put it into a little package, like "kleingarten" in former soviet easter german because also the concept of land ownership is a western concept. think of europe as an individualistic bridge and grandfather of stolen information from africa. Thinking anything else will have you quickly on a false narrative. the europeans innovated more in transportation, weaponry, steel, to later would become the commodofication of all goods swiped from Africa after ww2.
if you would like to understand some of the cooler parts of european innovation check out how germans analyzed nature. its difficult to any idea of how things were, and came to be, without the colonization,commodification of nature, and the attachment to rome. The natural aspect though, medicines, astrology, etc.. did come from Africa. The greeks just put fallacies of stories behind it and made it mythical. Harvard incorporates natural botonics from stuff the west label as "vodooo", but then use in their core scientific methods. Its a big mess, but having lived in Germany, and speaking German on a daily basis connects me to the mother of our tongue, english, and I think thats important to get away from north american, north american white superiority complex and back to original human values established back in africa, prior to rome and others as those are the values which have been incorporated in our society, that are not commodified, but used as tools to brainwash us in the media (group comfort vs peer pressure, dance circle vs mob mentality, and all the other bad things london institutions and pre-war german beaurocracy etc..)
Im sorry I cannot point a single resource there is too much in here that is combined.
Then you take that number and look at your source and storage. If you can produce 3KW per hour (assuming you are in best case able to produce 9kw because its only 305 efficiency), then you can produce perhaps 3*6 good hours per day and maybe get 18KW per day. Therefore youd need to double the production per hour.
Likewise if you can produce 100kw per day but only be able to store 10KW that is still not sufficient.
All venting so where does lithium come into the equation. Well its double the price of other storage systems like lead acid but holds a lot more power. Likewise, you can reuse it 3000 times instead of 500 like lithium batteries. So it pays itself off over time, assuming your system is stable.
I was just wondering what other people did. So far I have been trying to get set up but theres a lot of factors. Also very cold in Canada. Insofar, solar combinewd with geothermal based systems to me seems the most sustainable but if you have any other ideas let me know, as well as what your climate is and how you plan and hope to handle it. No wrong answers. But hope that clears it up:)
Are there any fishes that do get damaged? The ones I saw that were reasonable in price were in the 20% better efficiency but still some lost ones. I think its important to not be too intrusive on nature.
Also does it need to be a bigger and strong river? Would a small stream give you a few kW per day?
For me my criteria is totally harmless to nature and I can do it myself if need be. I had closed river power off for awhile because I didnt like how the industry considered fish death to be a casualty, but flowing water could be a good source of energy.
