Hmm, solar panels that are grid connected don't work off-grid. Don't take my word for it, erm....this is from your blog. Just a note: the Tie-In solar panel systems you may see on peoples’ roofs are not off-grid systems. Firstly they don’t even work if there’s no mains electricity, they switch off!ukpreppergrrl wrote:Ooh I like Briggs' reverse post-apocalypse scenario!
Third...there will probably be more of us than of you. And we will already have looted all the available Dettol and squirrelled it away. So assuming you've successfully crossed the Barrier Of Death, somehow ducked between our sentries, you're now at the gates of New Londinium Co-Operative...what do you have to barter with? What do you in the country have that we in the city might have run out of? We're growing veggies vertically (think Cuba after the fall of the USSR), we have electricity from solar panels on the roofs, we're harvesting rainfall, we're composting our toilets, we're burning lumber, we have lots of stores which are being replenished by our home-grown, we even have some Friesians looted from Kent giving us fresh milk and the odd steak grazing on Hampstead Heath. So, farm boy, what ya got to offer?
I'm a dumb-ass redneck, rooting, tooting, shooting, good ol' boy so my 3KW solar panel array is grid-connected and also diverted to fused circuits in my home, 240V and 12V. I know a thing or two about trees, lumber, aquaponics, rainfall harvesting and cows too......no wonder y'all wanna come here when times get tough. Yee Hah!