Daily Offgrid for 07 August covers 3 off-grid stories on two years ecojohn tinyjohn, what would be best, building codes. Offgrid is a daily audio summary of the latest ideas, innovations, products, and hard-won lessons for living autonomously and becoming more self-sufficient in energy, tech, food, water, shelter, and everyday systems.
Offgrid is a daily audio summary of the latest ideas, innovations, products, and hard-won lessons for living autonomously and becoming more self-sufficient in energy, tech, food, water, shelter, and everyday systems. This 3-story episode draws from OffGrid and moves through two years ecojohn tinyjohn, what would be best, building codes.
The poster spent two years with a propane incinerating toilet that was supposed to solve waste handling without a septic system or leach field, and says it turned into a steady repair project. Before cutting holes in the cabin, the poster bench-tested it outdoors with the correct propane tank, regulator, and a temporary exhaust extension, and it still showed ignition and operating problems right away.
Source subreddit: OffGrid
Next up, What would be best. the poster trying to pick a future off-grid state for a skoolie-based setup with solar, a compost toilet, room to grow food, collect rainwater, and eventually build on raw land.
Source subreddit: OffGrid
Then there's Building codes. One person argued that building without code sounds liberating until the failures belong to your whole watershed or your neighbor's boundary line.
Source subreddit: OffGrid
That's the roundup.
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