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I’d like to call out that the author is not living “off the grid”, they’re mooching off other people’s grid access to live and work. As others have called out,
by falcolas 4y ago
I’d like to call out that the author is not living “off the grid”, they’re mooching off other people’s grid access to live and work. As others have called out, this doesn’t scale.
Instead of couchsurfing, should we say they’re gridsurfing?
- euroderf 4y agoSo people at this winter's warm-up centers are heatsurfing. It's efficient, it's (at least relatively) social.
- jhanschoo 4y agoIf you reduce consumption by 80% to mooch off 10% of the remaining 20% using underutilized resources, that's great.
- falcolas 4y agoIf you had any kind of backup for those numbers, this might be a valid point. But right now, the "reduced consumption" (beyond habit changes and the few dozen kWh their solar panel generates) is 100% transferred onto other entities. Other apartments, college, restaurants, etc.