Off Grid News

A Dutch company, The Archimedes, has looked to the past in order to improve the future of wind turbines. Their design, based on the math of Archimedes, is a smaller, …

Solar rooftops and Tesla Powerwalls will power the new Tesla Town in Melbourne, Australia. Many of us expected some pretty big things from Solar City and from the development of …

Polymer solar cells are one huge step closer to becoming a commercially available option. They are cheaper to mass-produce and they can be produced in large rolls. This means that …

Plastic waste is everywhere. It is on our streets, in our water systems, our forests, and our oceans. Wouldn’t it be great if we had a way to put it …

Tesla and Solar City are have been doing exciting things over the past couple years. Tesla for both their introduction of the Powerwall off grid home battery system, the affordable Tesla Model …

Researchers at the University of California Irvine have created nanowire-enhanced electrodes that can withstand 200,000 cycles without losing capacity. That makes the battery essentially last a lifetime before needing replacement. …

We’ve all seen states crack down on people collecting rainwater, which really makes no sense to people who support conservation. Well, apparently Colorado has changed their minds and made it legal …

FALSE! – HUD is NOT Making it Illegal to Live in Your RV…It’s already illegal! A few days ago I wrote a post about HUD making it illegal to live …

Living in a Tiny House or RV Could Soon Be Illegal. The government (namely the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a.k.a. HUD) is proposing to make it illegal to …

Nevada raised taxes by 40% for off grid people using solar power. In addition, they cut the rates they pay people for their solar power sold back to the grid. …