Why is living off the grid important?
The pressure on non renewable resources is increasing day by day. Day by day it is becoming increasingly more and more difficult to find resources for generating electricity. Though it is being said, that there are enough coal reserves to last us for the next 300 years, it is not possible to use them without causing huge spread environmental degradation. In this context a lot of people are switching towards renewable resources. There are quite a few options in renewable energy resources. For instance, there is bio mass, hydro power and solar power. Living off the grid is very important because of the above reasons. At present, 38.1% of energy consumption of the US is from non renewable resources. Petroleum is used in transportation and manufacturing. Compared to this there is biomass which serves about 2.9% of the total energy consumption in the United States. It is mainly used in heating, transportation and electricity. We have a huge potential in the biomass industry. But only it bri
