For a long time now, I have been studying ways to minimize power use so as to do the climate control function. Climate control will use the most energy of all the functions for living out there. Consequently, in order to make this a realistic project, there cannot be something that is going to require a lot of generating capacity.
The reason is that is won't be as secure. You have to be aware of security out there, and if you have a lot of valuable equipment around, there are bound to be people who think they need it more than I do.
Another problem is in the building of something, if it involves the use of heavy equipment. If you leave your equipment out there, that is also vulnerable to being stolen. It is just a fact of life that you have to be aware of at all times.
This means that I have to build something that doesn't require heavy equipment, and is a realistic project for someone who doesn't have that many resources available.
The use of geothermal techniques intrigues me, but it is going to require some heavy earth-moving equipment. Or so I am told. I have no reason to doubt the advice. No, the problem is that I don't want to go that way if that is what is going to be required. Either I scale down my plans, or abandon these geothermal ideas.
So, I've have scaled down to about 4 feet. My idea is to climate control a limited space, like the coffin concept discussed previously. This would entail digging about 4 feet down, and building up about 2 feet. It would only be about 8 feet long, and 4 feet wide. That's still a lot of dirt.
This scaled down project still doesn't satisfy the critics. Well, then, I got another idea. I won't mention it here, only that the planning stages of this project are still ongoing, and the lack of posting doesn't mean anything except that I am into the planning stages only.
Come to think of it, all of this may be academic. So, in a way, yes, it could mean that this off-grid project may never happen at all.
But if it can happen, I will do it.
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