Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Solar energy has been on the rise in the last 2 decades. Many countries and companies have embraced solar. Solar technologies are more accessible than ever. Solar technologies include photovoltaic and heat collectors, and light concentrators. Light collectors and concentrators can be built at home for various uses.

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Living Off the Grid in the City Podcast. This text addresses the issue of mandatory water and sewage services. Water service refers to the supply of drinking water for human consumption and other applications in a given area, through different methods such as pipes and vehicles. These services are provided by both public companies (called water supply company) and private companies (called water company). In some cases, these companies exercise abusive control over the population and communities they serve, similar to electric companies. Although the severity of the abuse can vary by area, it is considered problematic in most cases. Additionally, in many places around the world, including the United States, water services are provided by private, for-profit companies. In summary, concerns are raised about the control and abuse exercised by water service providers, whether public or private.

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Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Yes! I believe it to be not only possible, but practical, advantageous, and necessary to live off the grid. It can save you money, give you freedom, and help the environment, your community and technologies. You need no more than a few hundred watts of energy to live generously, and using simple alternative energy methods and technologies can enable you to safely and easily be off the grid.

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Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. To more easily and conveniently get off the grid you should take a few smart steps. Consider your current energy use; change some energy use habits, and move high energy away from electric. These will enable you to switch to alternative energy sources and off the electrical grid.

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Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Retails store shopping is outdated and abhorrent. It is energy intensive and wasteful. Internet shopping is generally more affordable and creates demand in a wider region of the world. Demand for internet shopping can decrease cost, save energy, and improve world trade and relations.

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Living Off the Grid in the City Podcast. Electricity companies have the obligation to grow in size and finances to satisfy their investors and obtain positive profitability. To achieve this, they must increase their size and sell more energy. However, in their quest for growth, power companies often become lazy and wasteful, passing increased operating costs onto their customers. In addition, they push for more energy to be used, encouraging lower efficiency on the part of consumers, and demanding less diversity of energy sources. These practices are carried out through the influence of the electric company in laws, advertising and propaganda. Companies sometimes grow by purchasing smaller electric companies, when they cannot expand into newly developed areas; where another electric company or electric cooperative already exists.

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Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. The entertainment grid is wasteful, expensive, and one-sided. You have very little choice as to the programming you are served, and the content is ever-more extreme. Violence seems to reach for new heights every year. Sexual content seems to spread into more time slots and is becoming more extreme. The entertainment grid, as it has been fed to us; must go.

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Living Off the Grid in the City Podcast. It is common for local electric companies to be monopolies and have influence over public utility commission members. This allows them to have almost absolute control over the electricity supply and affect the economy of a wide area. Although you don't have many options to change providers, the company can disconnect you if you don't pay. Additionally, non-payment can lead to threatening notices from your landlord, city, county or state and even eviction. The power company often behaves arrogantly and abusively, knowing that customers have nowhere to turn. In addition, they have a large and well-paid staff, and have considerable economic, social and political support. They have managed to establish close relationships with the officials in charge of regulating their performance. In short, power companies have excessive power over communities and customers. Living Off the Grid in the City Podcast Hector Vladimir 2024© https://www.youtube.com/@HBCSolarPVTechByron http://www.youtube.com/@hbcsolarpvtech Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/

Music: Brindisi – Live in concert by José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti. Conducted by Zubin Mehta, the L.A. Philharmonic, and the L.A. Music Center Opera Chorus. Performed in 1994, at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles California USA. Especially orchestrated by composer/arranger Lalo Schifrin. Werner Classics.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Episode 6. Here in part 2, I continue discuss the clear disadvantages and harms of the current grid system. It is harmful due to the low priority given to customer service, and to the unchecked rate increases. Water service enjoys the same status, and it is a needed service that has turned for profit. Leaving the poor and destitute to suffer. Communications and entertainment have also turned to greedy for-profit industries in the US. And, this has curtailed their use for the poor.

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Soundtrack was Drummer’s Salute Composed by John Williams (1992).

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Episode 6. Here, I discuss the clear disadvantages and harms of a monopoly. And, how most areas have monopoly electric utility service. It is harmful due to the low priority given to customer service, and to the unchecked rate increases. Water service enjoys the same status.

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show

Hector Vladimir 2015-2024©

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Soundtrack was Drummer’s Salute Composed by John Williams (1992).