There are also other systems to heat your home with the energy of the sun or the earth such as a Trombe wall or a Canadian well tapping geothermal energy.
http://www.sitiosolar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/funcionamiento-invierno.png

on a simple hot water solar heater can help you in summer but ...

... dig deeper, I would say

Thank you Homerbask for your contribution.

No worry about languages, we all here share IDEAS [:)]

Your first YT exemple is fine in terms of recycling but it lacks one very important element in the process: Methane gas produced should not be released in the air as it participates to the greenhouse ...

Hi Okh,

I downloaded solar panels and wind mills from your suggested sites but they are all in .skp format not compatible with object import in SH3D.

Is there a way to covert into a usable format in SH3D ?

Thanks for your help.

Ray

So here I am struggling with intricate sloppy roof... [:(]

However, I was able at least to draw a very comprehensive roof timber framing using sloppy wall, wood texture and the “invisible triangle” obj, for which I give a thumb up to the author [=D>]

I tried working with the “sloppy ceiling ...

Here’s another interesting one:
http://earthhandsandhouses.org/various-workshops-poland/

Actually that’s the link I wanted to share: Calculate your environment situation !

http://solargis.info

Awesome ! There’s definitely people interested in the off-Grid field. I suggest that we funnel all these posts to the present thread to avoid the scattering of dedicated members in the myriad of this Forum threads. [>:D<]

Here’s also interesting sources for infos: http://naturalhomes.org

http ...

Oops, I made a double command here... BTW, can we delete or edit a post after it has been posted ?

Back to our subject, here’s some links to start with: https://youtu.be/qAJIandP5c0

I like the animation of this one: https://youtu.be/YylmeMilok8

Here we are in the core of the subject !
I’ll be giving a good thinking about all items you listed and share my experience here. I just need a few days for it as I’m busy finalising my container-bio-farm-off-grid project :)
For now, I’ll point out one important aspect of the off-grid concept: it's ...