Take charge of your power needs, Part 1: Solar Energy as an alternative to centralized energy systems

by | Feb 26, 2015 | Alternative energy, Living off-grid, Living Sustainably, Peter McIntosh, Solar energy, Sustainable building, Sustainable human settlements

Being dependent on a central power source is not very powerful at all, especially as costs of centralized large-generation capacity gets ever more expensive, while the costs of solar energy continues to fall.  Recently, in South Africa the centralized electrical grid...