Tesla Just Took Its First Step Toward Obliterating The Power Companies

[hunter]

10. You could do that today, I could do that today.

My wife's not going to do that. The no refrigerator / no washing machine / no clothes dryer lifestyle does not appeal to her and she's paying the electric bill.

But I've lived it, as a child and adult.

My great grandma didn't even have indoor plumbing. We lived with her some summers on the family homestead. Providers of your beef. My mom's cousin still owns the ranch. (One of his kids is a techno-geek like myself.)

Carry the water to the wood stove, wait until it's hot, wash! Multiple naked people in the kitchen! An 1800's Scandinavian immigrant thing, I suppose. My great grandma's breasts reached nearly to her naval. I saw 'em.

If my electricity is disconnected tomorrow I can still post here on DU thanks to solar power, but I do confess washing my clothes by hand and hanging them up to dry on the porch is such a nuisance I might be a bit stinky in such circumstances.

I love my parents dearly. Living as indigent Americans in a public park in France was still a grand adventure, no horrors! Even though the bathroom facilities were among the worst imaginable, including random masturbating or vomiting drunks, mostly guys... France got rid of us by giving us ferry tickets to England.

Dropping off the grid is easy. Walk to your main circuit breaker, turn it off. Or don't pay your electric bill.

Only then do things become interesting and worthwhile.

Where we live now we depend on city water and sewage. Everything else, including transportation, is optional. This region's export is food.

There are important things in life: food, water, safe shelter, appropriate medicine, and education. All the other shit is optional and far too often just shit.