Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show

Living off the grid in the city Renegade style - Nomad life or backpacking option for living off the grid. This option is the highest of all levels of living off the grid. It requires extraordinary determination, will power, and a daring attitude. It requires you to leave much behind, and risk much in your life. You need to be in good health, be smart, resourceful, and very resilient. You will have to prepare and pack a few basic items. A water container, a cutting tool (covered), a towel, and a backpack. You may need other items depending on many other factors like environment, weather, conditions, and occurrences around you. You need to be vigilant and clever on every decision you make. You must remain safe and survive every day. This is an extremely difficult choice and must be willing to risk much to engage in it. Here are a few more details. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

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Living Off the Grid in the City Renegade Style. This episode delves into the van life. The challenges are many. Leaving a sedentary life of comfort and convenience can be a shock. Here are a few things to consider before (or after) making the leap. It is expensive. You wont save time, energy, or money. That is among the advantages of a sedentary life. While on the road, you’ll likely be bleeding cash. Only hardened veterans of the streets will likely be spending as little as possible, but even that comes at a painful trade for comfort, exposure, and risk. You will have problems, at first, getting water, food, and rest. Cleanliness and hygiene is a challenge. Your privacy is limited and almost always short lived. The risk of other people attacking, robbing you, or harassing you is there. And, police, and security guards may also harass you and even cause you harm. Finding a place to park is often tough, and finding a place to stay long term is even tougher. The van life is hard, and takes a special kind of individual and a quick learning, adapting, and accepting attitude. You must learn fast, or risk serious injury or death while out on the road in a full time basis. Hector Vladimir 2021-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Electric companies have overcharged, stolen, from customers in many occasions. Mostly they “claim” these are “mistakes” “errors” or “booboos”. Never do they claim many of these are actions taken in hopes that no one will notice, and always with the ability to claim “ignorance”. So, if you have been doing your part in trying to save energy and money; yet you’re not seeing your good results, your electric bill remains high. There are a few things you can do. First, ensure that you really are saving energy. For this, you need to take steps to save energy, real steps. Kill your air conditioning and water heating as much as you can. Those should affect over half of your energy use. Second, you need to keep track of your electric meter readings. These readings should occur daily, or as often as you can at the same time per day, only once per day. After you’ve done these two things for months, then analize your energy usage, your electric bill, and visit and analyze your electric company’s website, especially your account details and your energy usage per their records. If after all these, you still see no major decrease on your energy bill, and you have found discrepancies between your records and that of the electric company, and you believe the electric company is stealing from your (overcharging you); you may take a few actions. First, be familiar with your electric company’s and your public utility’s commission regulations, rules, and agreements. Download those documents and read them. Educate yourself, you are your best defender. Call the electric company repeatedly and state your findings and demand a refund and a fix to the problem. If after a few tries you get no where. Up the ante and review the electric company negatively in the many review websites. State your evidence in these reviews. Protect your personal info in files you share. Also, report the electric company to the following companies, agencies, and organizations. Make sure you are serious about your charges and be prepared with your evidence. Enesure that; you are familiar with your electric company’s and your public utility’s commission regulations, rules, and agreements. 1. Consumer affairs (www.consumeraffairs.com) 2. Office of public utility council (for your state) 3. Public service commission (for your state) 4. Reliability entity (for your state) 5. Public utility commission (for your state) 6. Attorney General’s offive (for your state) 7. National electrical reliability corporation 8. Utility regulatory commission (federal) 9. Federal energy regulatory commission (federal) Once you have contacted these by phone, email, mail, and or electronic form. You may further push your case by reporting it to online, print, tv, radio, or other news and information outlets. Material in this video was largely taken from Ciber mixologo “How to Dispute Your Electric Bill and Fight Utility Company - Overcharged Electricity Bill”. At How to Dispute Your Electric Bill and Fight Utility Company - Overcharged Electricity Bill (youtube.com) Hector Vladimir 2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Renegade Style. Reiterating a few things. Renegades care not about identification, credit, or financial status. These things are just not relevant to people living completely off the grid. So, dumping your debt, money, and any attachment to finances is a natural thing for individuals of such caliber. To live off the grid renegade style, you need a place to live. In this series I discuss the 3 main options. Off grid homestead, van living, and nomad living. This episode reiterates what the homestead living is. It is not necessarily a place you buy, or land you acquire. It could be that, but it can be a place you squad in, or a corner that you inhabit, even if it is temporarily. There are many things to worry about though, and here I present some solutions. Also, the van life may be living out of a vehicle. Any vehicle. There are many things to consider though. Fuel, cost, sleeping arrangement, showering, etc. For these, a high level of LOTG is required. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Renegade Style. Renegades care not about identification, credit, or financial status. These things are just not relevant to people living completely off the grid. So, dumping your debt, money, and any attachment to finances is a natural thing for individuals of such caliber. To live off the grid renegade style, you need a place to live. In this series I discuss the 3 main options. Off grid homestead, van living, and nomad living. This episode reiterates what the homestead living is. It is not necessarily a place you buy, or land you acquire. It could be that, but it can be a place you squad in, or a corner that you inhabit, even if it is temporarily. There are many things to worry about though, and here I present some solutions. Also, the van life may be living out of a vehicle. Any vehicle. There are many things to consider though. Fuel, cost, sleeping arrangement, showering, etc. For these, a high level of LOTG is required. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy). Solar energy is pricey, and often inaccessible for poor people. Poor folks are the most in need for alternative, free, and affordable sources of energy. Yet, they can least afford them. Solar energy requires investment in expensive equipment, and the land, property, and freedom to install them. Here, I attempt to encourage helping such people, and give some ideas of how people of all economic situations can live free of energy costs, or at least severely lower those costs. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy). Solar energy is pricey, and often inaccessible for poor people. Poor folks are the most in need for alternative, free, and affordable sources of energy. Yet, they can least afford them. Solar energy requires investment in expensive equipment, and the land, property, and freedom to install them. Here, I attempt to encourage helping such people, and give some ideas of how people of all economic situations can live free of energy costs, or at least severely lower those costs. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy). Implications are different from benefits. implications are the possible consequences of living off the grid as a society or wider community. Benefits apply to personal level. Implications of living off the grid include: Greater power to the individuals, greater and faster advancement in many areas of social and public life. And many improvements to world affairs. Decrease of conflict, increase of efficiency and abundance, and decrease of waste and abuse. Technology should be greately impacted in many ways. Happiness levels should rise, and quality of life in many areas should dramatically improve. Here are the details. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. EV charging is frustrating and expensive when on the road. Slow charging is out of the question when you are on the road. Unless you slow charge at a hotel or a park trip, fast charging is the only reasonable option to get your range up within 1 hour and keep going. But, fast chargers are scarce and many of the few are out of service or occupied. There are seemingly too many EV drivers and too little options to charge out there. And, it seems to be getting worse as more EV drivers come out and less chargers are operational. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Renegade Style. To live off the grid renegade style, I would dump any ID, these are tools of control, tracking, and manipulation. Vehicles are not necessary, convenient, but not necessary. And, they bring tremendous cost and liability. And, they are used to control you and make you pay. So, dump your vehicle to free up your mind and body. There are ways to achieve these, but a high level of LOTG is required. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Electric company corruption and abuses. The electric companies are set up to rip you off. They have the incentives to raise rates, have poor customer service, and take actions to keep you connected, using more energy, and give you no choice. You are set up to maintain the high life style of electric company employees. You are penalized if you want to install technologies that save the environment and the planet. Your power company is set up to make a profit, expand, and sell ever-more energy. And, your power company has no competitors, it is a monopoly in most areas. This is why the power company keeps raising the rates on you, and you have no choice but to pay them. They know they got you under their thumb, and you are hopeless but to pay. This is why power companies are abusive, arrogant, and not worried about their customers. They know their customers are trapped. They buy your local city and state representatives so that they keep raising rates and making record profits unabated. They have agents to pick up your phone calls, for any complaints and try to blame the high bills on your high-power usage. They also try to scam you into a plan that estimates your power usage and averages your bill so you can pay the same high amount every month, and prevent you from getting outraged when you see your bill go up from month to month. They are even brazen-enough to offer you to “contribute” to solar energy by paying them for it. This way, they can control that market too. The power company sucks! Hector Vladimir 2023© Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/

Living Off the Grid in the City. Energy costs are high! The electric company keeps ripping me and millions of other forced customers off. The rates have increased dramatically and power companies like Georgia I was brazenly charged for about 200kwh of electric power I did not use. And, I have evidence for this. The power company spends big money on having all kinds of payment options and on publishing propaganda and useless tips to "help you save energy". But, the bullshit is beyond obvious. Here is evidence for the continued abuse from the electric company. So, the abuse is non-stop, and it continues through the worst of this stagflation, and seemingly the abuse is ratcheting up in this tight economy, with ever-more eye-popping energy costs, pummeling the poor and middle classes. Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show Hector Vladimir 2021-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5TIHiF_eJvCQcguldzhgHs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Podcast. Efficient methods. In this definitive episode; I define, explain, and give reasons for being efficient. I believe efficiency is at the core of many benefits. Happiness, advancement and achievement. Here, I share my recent experiences in Japan, what I believe one of the most efficient societies today. Efficient methods encompass the actions, choices, technologies, and mentalities that allow us to be efficient. Efficiency is simply operating at optimal performance; using the least resources while producing the most good for society and ourselves. And, resources to be saved include energy, materials, and time. This part one, focuses on defining efficient methods, and in ways how to be efficient. There, I discuss some methods, and common efficient choices. And, delve into some efficient technologies. Enjoy. Hector Vladimir 2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc6nd-_C6bkiKnMxLBg7DfgK https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority. Music: Kyoto Koto, Zen Garden, Moji Momiziba. Japanese koto music (No Copyright) "Kyoto Koto" Zen, Garden [Free BGM] (youtube.com) Graceful Koto, Moji Momiziba. Japanese Zen music (No Copyright) "Graceful Koto" Japanese restaurant [Free BGM] (youtube.com)

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy). Living off the grid “on the road” involves leaving the sedentary life behind. Moving out to a vehicle alone or accompanied. And going places while living. This may be done on foot, on a bicycle, or other non-motored vehicle but it is orders of magnitude more difficult. Here I delve into living in a large vehicle like a van or recreational vehicle RV. There are many challenges with this. Cost, social life, work, eating, bathing, and other. But, there are many benefits that may make this lifestyle be worthwhile for you. The ability to go and get to know areas, other people, places. Learn much more perspectives, and experience the art of living off the grid. Being mobile, you will need to provide your own water, food, and energy; largely off the grid. You will not be connected to utility water service, electric, or delivery services. It is a difficult, but rewarding choice. Here are the details. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Miles per gallon electric equivalent or MPGe is the EPA-formulated efficiency metric to compare to liquid fuel vehicles. It gives a clear indicator of how much more efficient an electric vehicle is over a liquid or gas operated vehicle such as gasoline or diesel. Here, I provide a list of the most efficient EVs on the market, and they hover around the 120-140 MPGe. An efficient gas vehicle may get you about 35 MPG. So, we’re talking magnitudes more efficient. An electric motor in an EV commonly transforms about 80% of energy into torque, while an efficient gasoline engine normally turns about 40% of energy into torque. Also, the EPA has calculated the efficiency of EVs for the energy used every 100 miles of travel in kilowatt hour KWH. So, the lower KWH per 100 miles; the more efficient the EV. The range is another very important metric in an EV. So, look for all these metrics on the Monroney sticker, or window sticker, of new (and some used) vehicles in the US. And, compare efficiency before buying. Another metric not included in the Monroney sticker is the KWH per kilometer (or per mile), that EVs use. These are normally displayed in the vehicle dashboard as you drive. For example, I achieved an 8.2 km per kilowatt-hour efficiency in my 2023 Nissan Ariya Engage. If I were to use 56 kilowatt-hours from the available 66 kilowatt-hour battery, that would translate to about 459 km range, or about 285 miles! That is “well-beyond” the stated EPA range for that EV; about 347 km or 216 miles. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Live discussion on electric vehicle disturbing trends on charging and availability for charging. Here I discuss how most EV apps suck! and how chargers remain so few. And, often, chargers are unavailable, blocked, broken, or you cannot complete payment. And, business owners, and cities and counties; are not installing chargers as they should. So, EV chargers remain hard to find and are not mostly free; as they should be. Hector Vladimir 2021-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5TIHiF_eJvCQcguldzhgHs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. A quick rant on our ignorance on climate change and how clear it is to most experts that the climate is array, and how we are just going about our lives making dumb choices. Hector Vladimir 2021-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5TIHiF_eJvCQcguldzhgHs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Costs of owning an electric vehicle. Energy rates for charging EVs vary from 10 to 60 cents per kWh per my experience. EVs normally have batteries that hold several dozens of kWh. For example, if you have a 50kWh battery, it takes 50 times whatever rate you pay to fill it up from zero. If you pay 50 cents per kWh; that is $25 plus tax and other fees. Chargin at home has been the cheapest to charge your EV. But that is changing. If you charge at home, this summer, rates have soared to an eye-watering 29 cents per kWh in some areas. And commonly rates are over 14 cents per kWh. And, although it is still slightly cheaper than buying gas, energy rates are making the cost of driving EVs closer to the cost of driving high fuel efficient vehicles. Hector Vladimir 2021-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5TIHiF_eJvCQcguldzhgHs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. The electric company keeps ripping me and millions of other forced customers off. The rates have increased dramatically and power companies like Georgia Power keep getting their rates rubber stamped by the utility commission. Last year they had a 2.1 billion fuel cost recoup drive. And, rates this summer have soared to an eye-watering 29 cents per kwh. Additionally, there is an almost $50 charge for “fuel cost recoup”. A surely “generously estimated refund” on the money they spent on fuel they bought “already at a discount” in the past. So, the abuse is non-stop, and it continues through the worst of this stagflation, and seemingly the abuse is ratcheting up in this tight economy, with ever-more eye-popping energy costs; pummeling the poor and middle classes. Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show Hector Vladimir 2021-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5TIHiF_eJvCQcguldzhgHs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

The electric company keeps ripping me and millions of other forced customers off. The rates have increased dramatically and power companies like Georgia Power keep getting their rates rubber stamped by the utility commission. Last year they had a 2.1 billion fuel cost recoup drive. And, rates this summer have soared to an eye-watering 29 cents per kwh. So, the abuse continues and is ratcheting up with a tight economy and ever-more eye popping energy costs pummeling the poor and middle classes. Your electric company is a wasteful, abusive, and greedy monopoly private corporation. And it holds immense power over you and your community. This is why its rates are so high and you are increasingly less able to do anything about it. Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show Hector Vladimir 2021-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5TIHiF_eJvCQcguldzhgHs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy). There are many claims of free energy, perpetual engines, and magical energy “black boxes”. But I've found out all of these are fantastic, exaggerated, and outright bogus claims. From purely magnetic non-stopping generators, to cosmic rays and ether catchers; all of these claims, without exception, are bullshit! Here I discuss the ridiculous and the “probably-coming soon” free energy sources and tech. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy). Transportation, electric vehicles, communication, entertainment, and defecating off the grid. These are vital and seldom planned for areas of life when going off the grid. These are necessary to continue when off the grid, so they need to be ideally planned before going off grid. Here I give a few pointers on what to expect on these areas when going off grid, and how to manage continuing to have them when off grid. Transportation is necessary, a low energy off grid lifestyle does not have to interrupt your transportation. Electric, high efficiency vehicles may be an answer. But walking, cycling, public transport and others may also work for you. You may communicate using low cost or free communication methods available. With some technical savvy and determination you can surely continue to communicate off grid. You may entertain your mind with a variety of tech, networks, and creativity, all low cost or free. And, you have to release waste, shit, on or off grid. Here I give you a few ideas on how to do this safely and completely independently. So, grab your headphones and some toilet paper and learn about all these necessities continued off grid! Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ https://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction. For international electrical installations follow the codes of your region’s electrical authority.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy). Eating, bathing, drinking, cooking, and wind energy. This show discusses many details, insights and intricacies of eating, drinking, bathing, cooking, and using wind energy while off the grid. Eating while off the grid can be challenging. You need to acquire, grow, store, and use your food in an efficient and smart manner. I share a few experiences and tips on that. Getting and drinking water is also a technical challenge. You need to have the means and know how to collect it, store it, and filter it. There are various tech and methods of doing these. Bathing using off grid water sources may require the use of some rigged or custom tech. Showers and fossets need to use water stored up high so they can dispense water by gravity. Alternatively, pumps and plumbing can be used. Food may require a high level of knowledge, experience, and ingenuity. Food must be acquired, bought, grown, maintained, cleaned, stored, and used effectively. Many different techs and methods are used for food of many kinds. Wind energy can work in many areas of the world. It needs to be big and high, with a powerful generator to make enough energy to keep a small battery bank alive. There are many restrictions on the use of big wind turbines in many neighborhoods of the world. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ http://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable regulatory code for all installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction.

Living off the grid in the City Renegade style is a series of lifestyles that some “serious off-gridders” choose to live. These are difficult and life changing, but may bring timeless and priceless experiences and satisfaction to you. These include living in a nearly totally-off grid homestead; living off-grid in a vehicle on the road; and living off-grid out of a backpack as a nomad. These lifestyles are difficult to engage in and remain in, so I recommend taking a few steps that will help you choose these lifestyles, and make those experience more significant and perhaps “worth it”. These preliminary steps are to: Dump your ID; Dump your money or payment options; and Dump your social media accounts. Dumping your ID allows you to ditch the control of those that issued you that ID, this way you’ll have no ties on your renegade off grid experience. Dumping your money and payment options will force you to experience what living off the monetary grid feels like. Few people can claim they have this experience. This will take your ingenuity and resourcefulness to new heights. Finally, dumping your social media will free you from the constant control, surveillance, and pressures of social media “friends”. This will separate you from the corralled “rats” forever attempting to be liked and followed. Enjoy this series and be sure to look for following episodes. Hector Vladimir 2021-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqGtc5tJy1BbtZaohmLi5F0-DFZ http://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/ For information purposes only. Always follow appropriate and applicable laws and regulatory code for all tasks, installations, modifications, and fabrications. For US electrical installations follow the codes of the authority having jurisdiction.