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

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Legacy. Updated for 2024. Conventional fuel combustion engined generators can be a good option for certain off grid situations. Yes, they are loud, bulky, polluting, and can be expensive to run. But if they are employed for very limited time, and for some situations, they may be a smart complement to an off grid renewable system. Here, I discuss on ways...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio (Legacy) Show. There are other solar technologies that may enable you to get off the grid. The photovoltaic effect history is briefly discussed here. These other solar technologies include solar coolers, non-electric refrigerators, and electric non-moving-parts heaters and air coolers. These technologies are based on solar concentrators, thermocouple and therm...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Solar energy has been on the rise in the last 2 decades. Many countries and companies have embraced solar. Solar technologies are more accessible than ever. Solar technologies include photovoltaic and heat collectors, and light concentrators. Light collectors and concentrators can be built at home for various uses. Living Off the Grid in the City Radio S...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. I belive it to be not only possible, but practical, advantageous, and necessary to live off the grid. It can save you money, give you freedom, and help the environment, your community and technologies. You need no more than a few hundred watts of energy to live generously, and using simple alternative energy methods and technologies can enable you to saf...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. To more easily and conveniently get off the grid you should take a few smart steps. Consider your current energy use; change some energy use habits, and move high energy away from electric. These will enable you to switch to alternative energy sources and off the electrical grid. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWqApEqG...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show (Legacy). Retails store shopping is outdated and abhorrent. It is energy intensive and wasteful. Internet shopping is generally more affordable and creates demand in a wider region of the world. Demand for internet shopping can decrease cost, save energy, and improve world trade and relations. Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. The entertainment grid is wasteful, expensive, and one-sided. You have very little choice as to the programming you are served, and the content is ever-more extreme. Violence seems to reach for new heights every year. Sexual content seems to spread into more time slots and is becoming more extreme. The entertainment grid, as it has been fed to us; must g...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Episode 6. Here, I continue discuss the clear disadvantages and harms of the current grid system. It is harmful due to the low priority given to customer service, and to the unchecked rate increases. Water service enjoys the same status and it is a needed service that has turned for profit. Leaving the poor and destitute to suffer. Communications and ent...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Episode 6. Here, I discuss the clear disadvantages and harms of a monopoly. And, how most areas have monopoly electric utility service. It is harmful due to the low priority given to customer service, and to the unchecked rate increases. Water service enjoys the same status. Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show Hector Vladimir 2015-2024© http://www...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio (Legacy) Show. Episode 5. Here I discuss more of the disadvantages of remaining on the grid. I discuss the actual cost of energy paid for a household over a long period. I talk on how it is costly, slavish, and wasteful to remain on the grid. Learn how water is energy and it is very expensive to pay for, how the BP oil spill dumped 3-5 million barrels of crude...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Among the most important reasons to get off the electrical grid is to begin to decentralize electric power production. This can bring unimaginable advances in quality of life, independence, and efficiency. We have been mostly denied our ability to harness and produce our own energy, and this is by design. Hector Vladimir 2023© https://www.youtube.com/pla...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. It is highly inconvenient and even dangerous to only depend on the utility grid. Not having alternative means to power your life is risky, and it is conducive to a subservient or even slavish relationship with companies and the government. Also, fossil energy resources have been sources on conflicts and war throughout the world.  Here I discuss all these...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Legacy episode. Here I expand on some the health, safety, and environmental disadvantages of remaining in the grid. I explain how the fossil fuel industry has exposed many thousands of workers to hazards that cause injury, illnesses, and death. Over 100,000 workers have died directly as a result. Let's begin to change this. Hector Vladimir 2015©  @HB...

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. This is my legacy show introduced in the summer of 2015, and it has been remade. This first episode introduces what I describe as The Grid. Which is the combination of electrical power, water services, and phone and entertainment services; that most adults pay for. I believe these paid services are abusively costly and have kept most of us under servitud...