My husband as well as I recently sat down to talk about what we will do after he retires. He is a successful businessman as well as I taught in a private high university until last year as well as we have a acceptable amount of money to retire comfortably on. My husband admitted that he would like to build a mountain lodge as well as live off the grid in the middle of nowhere. I didn’t know exactly what he meant by living off the grid although I sure wasn’t willing to live separate from central a/c as well as heating as well as I told him so. He laughed at me. He told me that he wants to make as little imprint on the environment as possible as well as we would be having a geothermal a/c as well as heating system run off solar panels as well as he told me that it really was really possible to live comfortably in the middle of nowhere. He reminded me that multiple things can now be solar or battery powered as well as I won’t notice a difference. He promised that I will have all my comforts, including central heat as well as a/c. I was grateful for the information. When he said off the grid, I imagined a wood lodge lit with lamps as well as water pumped in by a hand pump. I didn’t consider the comforts of current technology being able to keep me in comfortable a/c as well as heating if we lived anywhere electricity didn’t run to. I don’t know if I would feel isolated or not however at least we would have heat as well as a/c.