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RE: Living in Luxury Off the Grid - For We Who Hunger for Power! (part 3)
My husband and I would love to have solar panels but like you we have mountains to deal with. In the summer the sun goes behind the mountains by 5 pm even though in non-mountainous parts of the city there is still plenty of light until much later in the day. In winter and fall the sun is still hidden by mountains at times where elsewhere there is plenty of sunlight. It's neat you have them though. We have a well so no water bill which is awesome. Shame solar panels would never work for us.
Do you have wind energy possibilities? We looked into it briefly at the same time that we were considering solar but have too many trees.
It sounded like you were considering a garden. Is it going to be difficult to find plants that can take only getting the limited direct sunlight? That's one of our problems with the mountains too.