Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy)

Electricity and Electronics complete course - Learn all the basic concepts of electricity and electronics. Become an electronics technician and work, build, and create electrical and electronic circuits, devices, and machines. From electrical systems to computers and robotics, electronics and electricity is the foundation of it all. Chapter 2 Introduces electrical safety and the use of electrical...

Electricity and Electronics complete course - Chapter 1 The science of electricity – Review questions. Narrated by Hector Vladimir Text from Electricity and Electronics 10th Edition by Gerrish, Dugger, and Roberts (2009). For educational and training purposes only.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Electric companies are often involved in corruption, theft of funds, bribery, and cheating to gain millions and billions of dollars. These funds come primarily from rate payers, but also from tax payers. There are many high profile cases to see these. Some of these cases are discussed here. Also here, I discuss some little-known tactics used by electric...

Learn about the law of charges, static electricity, and voltage and current with these home experiments you can perform using everyday items. 00:00 Law of charges experiment 03:20 Electroscope experiment 10:50 Potato battery experiment 20:19 Series and parallel battery connections experiment The first experiment was not successful due to not following the steps on the text, and using ineffective m...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Solar energy for the poor. This episode discusses the challenges for middle class to poor individuals and families to acquire and use alternative energy like solar. It is relatively expensive, it requires many commodities often not afforded by the poor, such as a permanent owned residence in a stand alone building. And, the financial incentives that ofte...

Electricity and Electronics complete course - Learn all the basic concepts of electricity and electronics. Become an electronics technician and work, build, and create electrical and electronic circuits, devices, and machines. From electrical systems to computers and robotics, electronics and electricity is the foundation of it all. Chapter 1 part 2 continues discussion of many of the most basic i...

Electricity and Electronics complete course - Learn all the basic concepts of electricity and electronics. Become an electronics technician and work, build, and create electrical and electronic circuits, devices, and machines. From electrical systems to computers and robotics, electronics and electricity is the foundation of it all. Chapter 1 part 1 Introduces many of the most basic ideas in elect...

Top 10 most efficient ICE vehicles in the US for 2024 Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show 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 informati...

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 hav...

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...

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 c...

Living Off the Grid in the City Renegade Style. 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 inhab...

Living Off the Grid in the City Renegade Style. Here I discuss the homestead option. It may be an off grid dwelling of some sort. A dome, tiny home, trailer or mobile home, house, hut, tent, whatever. The point is that it is off grid and independent from all connections. The homestead option requires land. Land is often expensive and inaccessible to many. But, squadding on an unused piece of land...

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, a...

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, a...

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...

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 a...

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 t...

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 publis...

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 vehicl...

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...

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 char...

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://w...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. EV charging is getting expensive! part 2. 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...

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 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...