{"id":291,"date":"2012-08-31T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-08-28T17:37:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T23:37:20","slug":"off-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2012\/08\/off-the-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSCN0260.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"DSCN0260\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSCN0260\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSCN0260_thumb.jpg?resize=391%2C294\" width=\"391\" height=\"294\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a guy who makes fun of global warming, you\u2019d think I wouldn\u2019t have all of this renewable energy at my house. <\/p>\n<p>With wind and solar energy being my&nbsp; only source of electricity, and passive solar and a wood stove my choice of heat, I\u2019m an enigma to a lot of people I know. <\/p>\n<p>No, we didn\u2019t get rebates, tax credits, or any government help when putting up our system. As a matter of fact, the government just makes it harder to do a renewable energy system. (But we can talk about that another time.)<\/p>\n<p>Our tracking system for the solar panels is gas operated, and uses no electricity. The kids love \u201changing on the panels\u201d like playing on a swing, to move them on cold mornings. A bucket of rocks is faster and easier.<\/p>\n<p>My son Caleb, and I installed the entire system by ourselves. It works beautifully, running a well pump, computers, and lights all over the house and garage. <\/p>\n<p>Come by sometime for a tour. We\u2019d love to show you how you can lead the way in your community using alternative energy sources. <\/p>\n<p>This has nothing at all to do with global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a guy who makes fun of global warming, you\u2019d think I wouldn\u2019t have all of this renewable energy at my house. With wind and solar energy being my&nbsp; only source of electricity, and passive solar and a wood stove &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2012\/08\/off-the-grid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[579],"tags":[1235,1232,1231,581,1229,1236,1224,1233,1226,1227,1225,1220,1228,1230,1234,1219],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-whining","tag-computers","tag-electricity","tag-gas-operated","tag-global-warming","tag-government-help","tag-lights","tag-off-the-grid","tag-panels","tag-passive-solar","tag-rebates","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar","tag-tax-credits","tag-tracking-system","tag-well-pump","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B5nY-4H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}