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Serious discussion of off-grid living. Literally: living in a place that does not have utilities, such as power, water, sewer, and gas. No politics please, and please keep discussion on-topic within reason.
6 OFF-GRID LIVING Inventions & Products #4 (10:19) ~ Cool Gadgets & Stuff
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I would love to see them build a huge system of these turbines (as seen in the thumbnail image) along the southeast shore of Essex county where it would enter Lake Erie, after crossing at the shortest distance from Lake St. Clair (the Great Lake in the middle) across Tilbury and Essex County, Ontario, Canada in a man-made channel/canal/pipe with a drop of only 2 metres or 6 feet. This Essex County elevation map illustrates how the county is almost completely flat. There are already man-made ditches all over Essex county, so it's not an impossible task, but the only questions are financing and political will power. The financing should take care of itself soon enough via generated electricity, assuming they make the channel big enough to carry enough water for enough turbines. While it's obviously not the height of Niagara Falls, it is the same waterway. A bonus feature is that there is a robust electricity grid with the Detriot nuclear generating station and countless wind turbines were erected across Essex County - and driving along the 401 at night is spooky with their red aircraft warning lights pulsing like the heartbeat of the farming region.
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