Living off the grid is a phrase people throw around a lot, however it doesn’t mean the same thing as it used to.
- Off the grid, in general, just means you are leaving normal society for a life of privacy and solitude.
I don’t mean love a shut-in, I mean love a frontiersman, or a drifter, or a criminal keeping a low profile. These mornings that means no bills in your name, no car, no house, so iphone, no email address… living off the grid is almost impossible, but so when I talk about “living off the grid” I mean I have a geothermal heat pump that allows me to remove from the central power grid. I’m not a recluse or anything, and I have a bunch of email addresses, I just use our geothermal heat pump instead of the utility dealer, but first of all, I suppose the main reason more people don’t use a geothermal heat pump is because of the cost to purchase and get installed. These things cost quite a bit, no doubt, however over time it will save you so much money just on heating and cooling costs alone! A geothermal heat pump pulls the energy right out of the earth itself, and stores it in power cells, which in turn run your home. In numerous years, the geothermal heat pump was 100% paid for itself, which means everything from here on out is pure savings! Never again will I have to safeguard the temperature control, because all of us can run the AC as freezing as all of us want, forever!