Our sun provides an abundance of free power, yet we don’t even use 1 percent of it. Even if everyone were to put solar power on their homes, we still would use only a miniscule fraction of the power that ...
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How To Keep Your Food Cold Without A Refrigerator
If you live in the United States and are reading this, chances are you have a good-sized refrigerator. This is where you store much of your food, putting it in the fridge because it’s convenient and you don’t have to ...
Read More »Walmart And Other Big Businesses Prepare For Downed Power Grid With Alternative Energies
Many of America’s largest corporations now believe the electric grid is unreliable and are quietly developing the capability to operate without it. Companies in a wide variety of industries are scrambling to produce their own energy. Retailers, technology companies, and ...
Read More »How To Convert Your Home To Passive Solar
Passive solar is a great way to heat any home, lowering energy bills and providing some heating capacity for any power outage disaster. If one is fortunate enough to have solar heating, they can be sure that they will always ...
Read More »Solar Power ‘Key’ To Relief In War-Torn Country
The usage of solar power is growing around the world, and that includes the remote jungles of Burma. The leader of a humanitarian worker in Burma tells Off the Grid News that without solar power, his work would be much ...
Read More »Report: Northeast Blackout of 2003 Could Happen Again
The electric power grid in the United States is unreliable and more expensive than ever before. That’s the conclusion from an Associated Press report, which notes the amount of time the average American family spends without electricity has increased by ...
Read More »New Power Grid “Report Card” Reveal Dangerous Vulnerabilities
The power grid just received its “grade card” from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and it barely passed. The overall rating of our antiquated electrical system was a D+. Major power outages in the United States have grown ...
Read More »NASA Spots Fast Moving Solar Flare
A coronal mass ejection (CME) was spotted by NASA on July 22. CME eruptions on the sun can cause billions of solar particles to hurl into space, impacting electrical systems here on Earth. The recent CME spotted by NASA’s Solar ...
Read More »Alternative Water Heating Solutions
Those who choose to live off the grid are no stranger to hard work, but there are always new projects around the homestead that can substantially increase your quality of life while simultaneously saving a lot of money. Some estimates ...
Read More »Top 10 Questions About Solar Energy
America is a land of enquiring minds, and alternative energy is one area that evokes a lot of curiosity. These technologies sound good in theory, but we have been hearing for a long time about “the coming solar revolution” or ...
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