Why oh why do so many swear by solar for "every need" to be fulfilled...if it does not work for at least longer than it takes to PAY FOR IT, insure it, maintain it, repair it and/or the guarantee runs out before it is paid for???????????
You can use solar for running some lights and maybe small machines like rechargeable drills, circular saws or electric chainsaws, OK. But to run a complete house, barn, stable, cellar and the 6 foot wide TV screen??
You gotta screw your wishes down one way or the other...either live on a high horse and PAY PAY PAY...
Or, go for a smaller house, lesser wishes and save your money for more important things like food, water well, weapons, ammo, winter clothes and gold/silver....
Realistically speaking- prepping is getting ready to live alone, off-grid, without outside help, spare parts from China, needed seeds, fertiliser, animals and materials to simply SURVIVE and LIVE in the near SHTF/TEOTWAWKI....
Without Rule Of Law: without rule of the gov't telling you what, how, where, why and when to do something you do not want to do/pay for.....FREEDOM is being free from NEEDING something you cannot get or afford and the idea that if you do not get it but someone else does--
you are a slave to your overstaked desires and not free to get what you NEED and not what you WANT...
Spend more time being THANKFULL for what you have and less worrying/thinking about what you don't have. Gary