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All that to be 100% solar.
When I was a kid, my family was poor as fuck and we lived off the grid. We had a generator for power and it ran on diesel. Didn’t cost that much to operate either.
All this idiot had to do is install a backup generator instead of the enormous battery. Cost maybe $10k instead of the extra $250k.
All that to be 100% solar.
When I was a kid, my family was poor as fuck and we lived off the grid. We had a generator for power and it ran on diesel. Didn’t cost that much to operate either.
All this idiot had to do is install a backup generator instead of the enormous battery. Cost maybe $10k instead of the extra $250k.
Someone like him is going to spend more like $20K on a commercial grade whole house generator. The $10K ones are what I would call residential grade. The difference being things like better overall quality, the ability to run the unit 24X7 forever if you wanted to, etc. Think of having a water cooled until instead of air cooled.
House that big, he is not helping environment.
The article says the house is 2800 sq feet, hardly a "large" house.
HeadSet saysThe article says the house is 2800 sq feet, hardly a "large" house.
Larger than it needs to be though. Unless you have 4-5 kids, 2,800sf is obnoxious IMHO. Is that what many people have, yes. But if you're trying to be "green" like this guy, he fucked up from the word go.
I also look a ton at the value of my time and what it gets me. I sleep, shower and eat almost 80-90% of the time at home. Hell, we're normal traveling about 2 months of the year. Not everyone is like me, but it's a good exercise to run some numbers on the time you're at home and what you do. Spending large sums of money on a house is probably one of the dumbest uses of money ever.
A good mattress, master bath/bed and kitchen is really all you need if you want those to be nice/big. Paying for a dining room used 3 times a year if that is the biggest fucking waste on the planet. A bigger house ju...
My house is like 800 sq ft.
I also look a ton at the value of my time and what it gets me. I sleep, shower and eat almost 80-90% of the time at home. Hell, we're normal traveling about 2 months of the year. Not everyone is like me, but it's a good exercise to run some numbers on the time you're at home and what you do. Spending large sums of money on a house is probably one of the dumbest uses of money ever.
While we may not agree some of the choices this guy made, bear in mind that he was 550 ft from the nearest power pole and faced a choice: pay PG&E Corp. roughly $100,000 for engineering work and foot the enormous additional cost of the trenching, or engineer a more personal fix. He'll probably be doing better than most of us after the big one.
I had built a large home for my residence in 2014, for the following reasons:
I plan to retire soon, and like Wookieman
HeadSet saysI plan to retire soon, and like Wookieman
Retire to where? No fucking way am I staying here.
I forget you guys are on the east coast. Humidity and hurricanes blow, but Florida is where I'd go domestically. Probably panhandle area.
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