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More pix, again…
02-29-08 I have more pix: This is our cabin from the opposite side of the valley from us, can you see the cabin? If you can, then you have super vision or are v...

Construction Pix
More Pix I took more pix, here they are: This is Bob up on a scaffold that he made, he was putting up more panels of wood on the south side of the cabin, the sc...

Barefoot chic
Now the super rich want to go off-grid – as long as it has broadband...

Why I took my kids back on the grid
A mother and four children found life in Ireland with a mini wind turbine too tough, especially when kids from the local school arrived wanting hot meals and TV...

More Pix
More Pix I took more pix today, here they are: This is the hole that Bob dug, it’s about 6 feet deep and 6 feet across, the bucket you see in the hole is ...

Masdar – off-grid or off their heads?
World’s press taken in by massive launch party for Arab eco-city. In fact its self-professed aim is to allow more oil to be drilled, while the eco-city i...

Decreasing Diesel Dependency
wind turbines specifically designed for extreme climates, and a storage system that uses hydrogen and a fuel cell....

The wood-shed of Oz
Step-by-step account of a low cost off-grid set-up in a warm climate. All you need to know to do it yourself....

Times article by Editor
Go off-grid! Off-Grid Editor Nick Rosen has written an article in today’s London Times about living off the grid, under the radar of the surveillance soci...

Off-grid? We were never on
Poster power Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the take up of off-grid technologies, says the Wall Street Journal Asia, could be their rapid success. Rising deman...

