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how to not pay power or water bills, or pay for gasoline ever again

1) buy about 15kw of solar panels off ebay. at the current price of 70 cents a peak watt including the grid tie, that's like $10,500. this will basically cut your power bill down to nothing (you still need the grid tie for baseload). and you'll also need a battery bank big enough to last you through the night. probably another $3k

2) get a parabolic solar water heater, both for water distillation (for purifying water) and also to heat A/C collant for your air conditioner/heater. using this you can capture rainwater and continuously recycle it with distillation and a small reservoir tank. The piping hot water could also potentially sterilize your waste water and break it down into compost. This can get somewhat complex though, what with filters that need to be cleaned. Also consider drilling a well.

3) buy an electric car. get a small trailer and a gasoline electric generator as well. Around town just use the batteries, and hook up the generator for long trips. charge your car off the solar panels when you're not driving

4) get a satellite or 4g internet connection. it's not cheap, but you have nothing else to really spend on aside from food, so fuck it

you could go even crazier and build your own greenhouse, but that's another hurdle and a half

tl;dr SOLAR ROCKS FOR OFF-GRID LIVING but is garbage for generating baseload.