Off-grid living: researching & building the dream
Building our dream home required a heap of research – bushfire prone area, environmental overlay, off-grid with no external services. We want a large, sustainable house without compromising normal living and amenity. We need value for money, but want quality, low maintenance and longevity. We want to be carbon negative.
I’m summarising our research and learnings as we go, to hopefully help others on this journey. There’s a lot more info coming….
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House: fact based stuff on permits, bushfires, how many trees do you need to plant for firewood, how to build a snake proof fence, design for above ground planters…
Offgrid Technical: what I’ve learned about offgrid and its components, from original research through performance once it’s up and running. Corrections welcomed from our electrical experts!
Carbon Neutral Australia: my thoughts on Australia’s need to become energy carbon neutral.
About: what this site is about
And of course, the Blog.
Latest from the Blog
The problem with our EV is….
We’re spending too much time in it! Just as well we love it. It’s quiet, fast, sticks to the road and free to drive…. It used to cost us over $50 to go to Melbourne and back, $5 to $10 to visit our local town to buy milk, visit the beach, see family and friends,…
We bought an EV – our Zappi does a great job
We said as soon as our local town got an EV charger we would buy an electric car. In September, a charger was installed, so we carried through and bought a car. Our car has two and a half times the battery capacity as our house, so we needed a smart charger – one that…
Why your inverter should be lower capacity than your solar panel
A bright sunny day in August, fully charged by 10:30 in the morning, and the closest we’ve come to hitting our inverter limit of 12 kW. If the batteries had more capacity, or we were using more, I think we would have seen it max out. A sunny day in June (when the hot water…
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Off Grid Living - Building the Dream 