/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>211893
>make money from their solar panels by feeding electricity back into the mains

Most people who say they "make money" are merely paying off the cost of the solar panels. You don't actually start making money until:
(kWh produced) x ($ per kWh charged by utility co) > (total $ spent buying and installing panels).

>>211923
>Infographic: have a garden, 3 pigs, 2 goats, and 13 chickens.

That's 4 things that, together, will take up all your time. Where's the time to have a job?

If you're going to raise 3 pigs, it's barely any more work to raise 6 pigs, or 9 pigs. Instead of splitting your time between 3 types of animals, you could put the same time and effort into raising a lot more of just one type.

Producing your own food and power is extremely inefficient. By shunning grocery stores, you can produce food for your family. But by working with the grocery stores, a farmer can produce and sell food for 155 people! By shunning the power utilities, you can produce electricity for your house. But by multiple people banning together to form a utility company, that utility can produce electricity for thousands of houses.