I just recently started using a solar charger to charge a 10k mah battery pack that I use to charge my phone every night. One device “off the grid.”

Short of installing solar on my home I’d really love to be able to charge a large battery that would output 120V so I could use household appliances “off the grid.”

Does anybody have some other energy hacks, or ways to reduce your energy consumption at home that’s not just “use less energy?”

  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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    In rural china their farms traditionally have one, like a tank they route sewage and scraps and whatever, and they pipe off the gasses for cooking and heating and such, as it produces methane and the like.

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      Ah this is probably a bigger setup than I can manage right now. Probably end up blowing up my house.

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        You wouldn’t blow up your house, it’s not complicated, medieval Chinese did it, you can too, it would be expensive though. Unless you feel like digging 6 to 10 ft down into the Earth, which I have done and is not fun. However, if you can get explosives, that changes everything about getting down that far. You still need a tank, an old fuel oil tank might work even though.