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If you're using a gas generator you're not being off-grid. You still depend on society to provide you with gas. You are just being inefficient.
by lumberjack 11y ago
If you're using a gas generator you're not being off-grid. You still depend on society to provide you with gas. You are just being inefficient.
- slaman 11y agoOff the electrical grid ≠ independent of society.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoWe had this discussion the last time "off-grid" came up. Some take it's meaning more literally, with grid meaning pipes or wires delivering services to your home. So gas being piped into your generator would be on-grid, if it gets trucked in then that's off-grid. Electricity via wires is on-grid, electricity via a factory built solar cell or windmill is off-grid. Others have a more poetic definition of "off-grid" as "self-sufficency" though it's hard to see where that ends, as there's no clear dividing line, even a child born in a remote rainforest tribe with no contact with the world will end up using tools and techniques passed on by local culture.