| Back in the pioneer days, the families who settled | | | | are making it less complicated and less dear for |
| the American west by homesteading in covered | | | | homeowners to generate their own power using |
| trucks managed to carve out a decent existing | | | | alternative means. |
| without the necessity for electricity, but they weren't | | | | First of all, the expenses of purchasing power are |
| addicted to TVs, computers and labor saving devices | | | | getting increasingly expensive for 2 reasons. In the |
| how we are here in the 21st century. But that | | | | case of electricity that is generated by burning |
| doesn't mean that you have to give up all your | | | | carbon-based fuels like diesel or coal, all of these |
| modern conveniences if you'd like to become more | | | | precious natural resources are reaching their limit of |
| self reliant and unplug yourself from the utility | | | | availability, and it's a common principle of economics |
| company in order to live off the grid. On the | | | | that when the supply goes down and the demand |
| contrary, it is modern advances in technology that | | | | goes up, prices naturally rise. |