Originally Posted By: etaoin

not necessarily without electricity, Bel, just not buying it from some big utilities company. having a wind generator or solar panels, etc.

btw, I just want to re-iterate, I have never heard it used any other way than in a utilities/electrical sense, so this other usage of hiding from the government is interesting.


Me too, eta, which is why I brought it up. I find this discussion fascinating! Thank you all for your input. I'd like to be more off the grid for two reasons: a) We get a lot of power outages here and I hate that; 2) I'd like to use less energy and be less wasteful in general. [/teetering on the political]