Homestead Energy Systems

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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0:00.0	Today we are talking energy systems my friends for your suburban homestead or
0:19.6	your urban homestead or your rural homestead anywhere you want the the way to approach it, the way to think about it
0:25.1	and what I've personally done in my suburban home.
0:28.2	So this is all coming from the Epic homesteading book that is out now wherever books are sold but of course
0:34.0	shop that epic gardening.com for that special copy go ahead and grab one but come
0:39.5	along with me because this to me I think is a very important thing to understand.
0:43.6	And frankly, when I started getting into this, I did not understand how specifically
0:50.0	solar worked.
0:51.7	So let's just run through the bare bones basics, keeping in mind that a lot of the
0:57.4	particulars very much depend on the state you live in and your energy company's policies. So I'll speak to what I'm doing here.
1:06.4	You'll have to do a little bit more research in your area. But the first thing to think about,
1:10.8	what do you have when you turn on the light right what
1:13.2	happens well energy electricity is pulled from the grid which we hear about we
1:18.8	don't really think about and it's what powers all of our homes, right?
1:23.0	And so when you want to get off the grid,
1:25.0	you might think, okay, well, let's just get some solar power,
1:29.0	then the sun is hitting the panels,
1:30.0	the panels are generating electricity,
1:32.0	that electricity is going directly
1:33.8	into my toaster right well it turns out that's not actually how it works your house is
1:38.5	of course connected to the grid because that's how it's drawing energy from the
1:41.9	grid and when you put solar on the roof of your home,
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