This is my dream: To live as my forefathers once did - in harmony with the land that sustains us. A project to investigate and innovate the creation of a low impact home with methods of living in a form of permaculture designed to sustain my family and improve biodiversity. To leave the land richer than before and in doing so enable others to do so.
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Off-Grid Man Jailed For Confronting Utility Company
Posted 20/05/09 by Matt B in the Urban category
In the Pittsburgh area, a man went to jail rather than let the local power company run an electric line through his property. He's also in some hot water for refusing to connect to the local sewer system. Although he’s repeatedly lost in criminal court, William Williams, 76, of Cecil, vows to continue removing the guy wire and its anchor in his yard each time the power company replaces them. For Mr. Williams, it’s all a matter of civil disobedience. He said he refuses to surrender his property rights to the utilities.
How far would you be willing to go to protect your right to home and privacy, your right to live "off grid" if so you choose?
Solar Energy - It is Popular. So Why is it Not Yet Widely Used?
Posted 17/05/09 by Matt B in the Urban category
The fact is, the 350,000,000 terawatts of power available from the sun is so huge that an exposure to a full sun in only 15 minutes will be enough to generate the world's energy requirementCompare this gargantuan amount of free energy with energy that is generated by nuclear and fossil fuel. Presently, the available data for fossil and nuclear fuel offers us a mere 10,800,000 terawatts which we all know to be non renewable.
To produce electricity, utility companies burn fossil fuels at a rate that translate to 1.3 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) to produce 1kw of electrical power. These unwanted CO2 emissions are pumped into the atmosphere where they cause all sorts of mayhem. This then translates into each typical home being accountable yearly for 22,000 pounds of CO2 emissions.
The harnessing of the sun's rays is clean and safe. It produces no emissions and it is practical and may, in the years ahead, prove very economical. In the USA, for eaxmple, only 0.1% (1kw in ever 1000kw) of power that is generated is solar energy.
So what are the obstacles that stand between clean safe and unlimited and us, the people?
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