If you want a complete solar homestead...and I mean COMPLETE, then check this story out!
Seems like these folks are making it easy to start living the "off-grid" life as soon as you can come up with the purchase price!
Catalog offers mail-order home: This one's solar
© 2010 The Associated Press
April 22, 2010, 12:25PM
April 22, 2010, 12:25PM
BOULDER, Colo. — Real Goods Solar Inc. has been selling solar panels for homes for years, but its latest mail-order catalog goes one step further: The Louisville (LOO'-iss-vil), Colo., company offers a whole solar house, with a choice of traditional or cedar siding.
The factory-built, one-story house by Boulder-based Solar Village Homes goes for $90,000 to $120,000. It has energy-efficient and energy-producing features, including solar electrical and hot water systems. Setting it up could cost $40,000 to $100,000 extra.
Solar Village co-founder Mark Kostovny says it's possible for solar home owners to have no energy bills, depending on their consumption.
Well, it's nice to know that a total package can be bought from a catalog. Now, if someone wanted to loan me the small sum of $140,000...I could jump right in! (the extra is for the set-up)
How about some coffee on the patio, my friends? We can plan where to put our new "solar home"...and how we are going to pay for it!
