| Most people who are off the grid, rely on some combination of alternative energy such as wind, photovoltaic or hydro. |
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| Takuma Sato made the most sensational start off the grid, stealing the limelight as he scorched his way from 7th to 4th. |
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| It's an instructional guidebook compiled largely from various websites that provide tips for living off the grid. |
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| We time how long it takes a driver to cover a quarter mile, their speed at the end of the run and their reaction time off the grid. |
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| If you are off the grid, then you will need to decide how large you want your battery bank to be. |
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| The cabin could also be equipped with a photo-voltaic system and a passive-solar water heater so that it could function off the grid. |
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| When all is said and done, getting off the grid is more than producing your own energy, it is a state of mind. |
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| Our homes will be powered by micropower units that will allow us all to get off the grid. |
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| The car was pulled off the grid when the team realised that the problem was still apparent and the car did not start. |
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| Being off the grid means not checking the endless flow of work related emails sent directly to me or to one of the any number of internal mail lists I'm on. |
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| In contrast it was a disappointing day for Heikki, who failed to get off the grid at all after suffering a transmission problem with his Arden car. |
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| Though I'm not a rugged individualist in the Thoreau mold, I'd want to head off the grid in the Via to a place I'd have all to myself. |
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| Yet many children left to their own devises slip off the grid and slide under the radar. |
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| It is a lot of effort to get a lot of diesel power generation off the grid, get more clean non-emission generation onto the grid. |
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| When you're off the grid you need to know how long it will really take to power up. |
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| Residents of Manila that are off the grid pay more for water than people living in London, New York or Rome. |
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| For years, Sam Fisher has been off the grid and on his own, tracking his daughter's killer. |
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| When you take these loads off the grid, you will no longer need as much coal or natural gas. |
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| It was around noon that Brinsley chucked the phone behind a radiator at the basketball stadium and went off the grid. |
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| For all of 1993 and '94, Spek lived in his bus at the back of a vacant parking lot in Toronto's west end, finally coming to terms with Toronto winters off the grid. |
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| Instead, most property is owned provisionally or even illegally, which means that large numbers of people live off the grid, escaping taxes and pilfering their utilities. |
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| The beach looked like a small swatch of an industrial wasteland.... He had promised me a crowd-free break that was off the grid, and here it was. |
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| As an example, one of the recent segments in our Burlington-Oakville area alerted viewers about a door-to-door energy scam operating in their neighbourhood and subsequently informed them on how to get off the grid. |
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| As you know, the oldest nuclear power plants in operation will be taken off the grid in a few years' time, and electricity purchase agreements with France are also due to expire. |
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| The NEA authors recognize that this is Ònot the most pessimistic scenarioÓ, since many units are projected to be taken off the grid significantly earlier than projected in the NEA scenario. |
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| He has no desire to be found. His place was off the grid. The cabin had no television, phone, or computer. |
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| Eventually, the lignite-fired power plants will be taken off the grid entirely. |
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| Living off the grid can save exorbitant amounts of money each year while also giving a new level of autonomy to property owners. |
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| He asserted that he views the US, today, much like East Berlin, and that he is off the grid. |
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| Very simple habits like turning off the lights and TV when you leave a room can make a big difference off the grid. |
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| She believes it is even possible to live off the grid in inner city areas, but that requires being a functioning part of a community. |
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| The property never had a hydro pole on it so we had no choice but be off the grid. |
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| If you're annoying folks, you'll essentially cease to exist, as those you annoy drop you off the grid. |
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| An entire life voluntarily lived off the grid? |
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| Slipping off the grid for a while is part of the attraction of heading into the wilderness. |
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| Rosen is a writer and documentary filmmaker who earned his off the grid wings living in a homemade RV in Britain. |
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| This is equivalent to 14 swimming pools full of water, taking 203 homes off the grid, 249 cars off the road, and eliminating the need for 39 garbage trucks. |
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| Imagine a future in which millions of families live off the grid, powering their homes and vehicles with dirt-cheap portable fuel cells. |
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| Those city properties did not go completely off the grid, but they sharply reduced the amount of power they drew from it, he said. |
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