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Are you getting tired of the high gasoline prices to fill up your automobile? Well what about the high natural gas prices to heat your home or the increasing energy costs of electricity? Well if you really get tired of this and have come to a wits end, perhaps it is time to consider living off the grid. That is to say living without hooking up to natural gas or electricity from electric power plants. But how can this be possible you ask?

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Well consider a home, which uses solar energy and wind to generate electricity to charge up batteries in your home and a home, which is properly designed and well insulated. By living in an energy efficient house and considering the many modern break thrus in solar energy generation and wind turbine power, the possible future of you and your family living off the grid may someday be a reality you see?

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Did you know that electric wind turbines with new materials are almost twice as efficient as in the past decade and solar has also come a long way too? In fact some new solar technologies are 5 times more efficient and cost half the price as before meaning your ROI return on investment is quite doable and makes sense really. Within the next decade battery technology will be available too which is 4 times more efficient and lasts 4 times longer. Add all this up and then ask yourself; have you considered living off the grid?

 
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2 Comments on Living Off the Grid; Is It for You?

Lance - Many people in Alaska live "off the grid".  When I state it that way in a listing, I'm shocked at how many people outside our state have no idea what that means.  It's refreshing to know I'm not the only one of my generation to have read an issue of Mother Earth News"!

12/30/2007 01:02 AM by Debbie White (Southeast Alaska Real Estate)


Indeed, Debbie, I read that along with all the alternative energy magazines. I sit in one of the big book box stores two days a month taking notes actually. I use to go to the library, but now, it seems all the best new information is there. Plus on the internet Google "Scholar" search allows our Online Think Tank to stay on top of all the new things. Yes, I realize that most people in Alaska live off the grid, many cannot even get to their homes without flying in, but if you are going to live in paradise, you know sometimes you modify your needs a bit. - Lance

12/30/2007 01:22 AM by Lance Winslow (The Car Wash Guy)


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Mr. Winslow uses the Active Rain Real Estate Industry Blog, to discuss issues that affect the Real Estate sector of our economy. His dialogues include such things as; droughts, subprime lending fallout, building materials, living off the grid, sales ethics, commercial property, crime, revitalizing downtowns, economic development, community volunteerism, and predicting the future of the real estate markets in the United States.