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Off The Grid Living…Living On Solar: Is Ditching The Grid Realistic?
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Living On Solar: Is Ditching The Grid Realistic?
Written by: John Cagle Grid Threats
Living On Solar: Is Ditching The Grid Realistic?
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If you’ve ever thought about ditching the grid and going solar, then you’re not alone.
Odds are that you’re living in a home right now that is tied into a nationwide network of power lines, water mains and phone cables that many of us depend on to provide services that supposedly are necessary to make our lives a little easier.
While services like electricity, running water, natural gas and cable television are staples of the developed world, most Americans have unfortunately been sold a lie: the notion that we must obtain these services from large utility companies.
Take your local power company, for example: What exactly is wrong with questioning why you’re having to pay exorbitant amounts of money each month for services that you’ve been told you can’t live without?
And even if you’ve adjusted to the consistent fluctuation in energy prices on a month-to-month basis, what about your dependence on the grid to provide you and your family with the power that you need to go about your daily lives?
Is it really responsible to rest your family’s well-being in the hands of a company that could turn the lights off – either knowingly or unwittingly – at a moment’s notice? And we haven’t even discussed the power grid’s old age and lack of dependability – or the fact that reports to Congress acknowledge that the nation could suffer a nationwide blackout if just nine of the 55,000 substations failed or were sabotaged.
There are plenty of social stigmas in the U.S. today that cast a negative light on the way that some people live, but few things boast responsibility and independence more than a solar energy producing home that is self-reliant and free from the shackles of local utility companies.
There also has never been a better time to fire your power company and go solar than right now. It may very well be the best homestead decision for you and your family that you’ll ever make…..MORE HERE
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