Solar Home at Tellus Museum (Cartersville GA) is a fraud!

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. I visited this solar house in 2012 and was amazed and encouraged to see a display of the possibility to have a working home running entirely on solar. The home was a modest and low cost built, it was more like a fancy manufactured home or trailer home. It was said to have cost $250,000 to build. The home had a set of very expensive and beefy German made batteries to run the very modestly sized home with all LED lights, very efficient electronics and appliances. I was ensured at the time that the home ran on 100% solar by the tour guides. Fast forward to 2019 and 2023 and the off grid solar house has been replaced with a grid-tied very expensive steel construction home. I guess it may cost from $400 and up right now to build such house plus land value. It is not affordable, and it is not 100% solar. This house is truly a farce and a fraud. It was taken back in time and connected to the utility. Perhaps the owners were pressured by the power company or “someone” in the Tellus museum leadership did not want to spread the idea of off grid homes. Shame on Tellus museum, shame on Cartersville, and shame on backward Georgia!
By HVB
For Sparky Alternative Energies and Aerospace
Released
9-25-2023