I have been on solar power, totally off the grid, for 11 years now. I sacrifice some on cloudy days, but it is sunny most of the time. Flat screen TV and computer monitor, big guitar amps being played loud, a passive solar Earthship greenhouse still gives me vegetables year around.
My solar paid for itself 5 years ago, because I had the good sense to do it myself, and I live in an area of 5 hours minimum winter sun.
I have not been to this forum for a while because I lost everything in a computer crash last summer. Finally, I was directed by an email to theenvironmentsite.org (full of AGW denialists) and finally back here where it seems better than before. It is nice to be at a place where AGW and OP denialists are not butting in and over-posting to ruin threads. I do see a few getting away with off topic joking around where it doesn't belong. Still, great threads on pertinent environmental topics.
