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" I'm in the process of taking a tiny house fully off grid" Why?

• flagrant_taco 3y ago
  Honestly, partly just for the challenge of it. But more importantly I don't like the approach we have taken to prioritize convenience above all else and centralisation rather than independence. For example, I don't like how big a role oil plays in my life and I would like to be less dependant on it day to day. I'm also trying to grow and raise more of my own food so I'm less dependant on industrial farming and meat production. Living in a tiny house is a tradeoff that makes it possible to even consider going of grid. I can't imagine trying to design a sustainable off grid power system to great and cool a 3,500 sq.ft. house, designing for 350 sq.ft. is already daunting enough.
  • HyperSane 3y ago
    You will quickly discover why we depend so much on oil because life before oil suuuuuuucked.
    • flagrant_taco 3y ago
      Isn't the common argument these days that life with oil is ruining the planet and will fundamentally break it as early as 2030? Life would be very, very different without oil but if we honestly think our use of oil is breaking the planet I don't know what the choice really is. We'd be picking between breaking the planet on the time scale of decades or having to go back to life as it was lived up until the last few centuries. As terrible as that transition would be, the two paths seem like an obvious choice.
      • HyperSane 3y ago
        "life with oil is ruining the planet" It isn't ruining the planet, just altering weather, for good or bad. "fundamentally break it as early as 2030?" Who is saying this? ALL of modern civilization is only possible due to cheap energy from oil. We couldn't make solar panels or wind turbines with only power from solar panels and wind turbines.