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  Ayden Byle

  

  An Off the Grid Fairytale-Like House (For When You Want to Run Away)

  Apartment Therapy - Nancy Mitchell

  The little house that Diana and Michael Lorence built for themselves in the woods of Northern California is like something out of a fairy tale. …

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  Ayden Byle

  

  16 Inviting Countryside Cabins

  dwell - Byron Loker

  In 1845, one of America's most famous writers, Henry Thoreau, built a small home for himself on Walden Pond, a piece of property owned by poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. He spent more than two years there seeking a more simple way of life, and ended up flipping the standard routine of the times. This …

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  Dave Comrie

  Tesla Motors officially owns solar panel installer SolarCity - Canadian Business

  canadianbusiness.com - The Associated Press

  PALO ALTO, Calif. – Tesla Motors now owns the nation’s largest solar panel installer. Tesla’s deal to acquire SolarCity Corp. closed Monday …

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  Dave Comrie

  

  How Batteries Will Become Standard in Residential Solar Systems

  FOX Business - Travis Hoium

  In any solar installation, there are two main components. There's the solar panels that turn the sun's energy into electricity (DC) and the inverter that turns that direct current into alternating current (AC) that can be used in the home or sent back to the grid. There may now be another component …

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  Dave Comrie

  

  How much solar energy can your roof make? Just Google it

  CNN - Jacopo Prisco

  Marrakech, Morocco CNN — If you’ve ever thought about putting solar panels on your roof, you know that the process doesn’t exactly qualify as an impulse purchase. Typically, it involves multiple visits from solar installers. The standard practice in the industry is to go up on the rooftop with a …

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  Dave Comrie

  

  Ten Things Learned Living Off-grid in Canada

  The Tyee - Phillip Vannini

  For two years we travelled the country to find off-gridders, and studied their ways of life. It was in 2011 that I first understood what off-grid …