For solar, you can utilize LiFEPo4 batteries which are safer and last longer.
You still MUST buy batteries in cases where you want to utilize power and that's on top of the panels (which fortunately do have a much longer lifespan, but still, very expensive)
The problem here is that everyone is so reliant on some sort of 3rd party shit to just exist. I'd be ok living in the woods and burning wood for fuel for crying out loud. I could read books for entertainment. But I'll still have to figure out and rely on others for additional food.
There is no clear solution to this problem, society as a whole needs to really be fixed so that we can have a tolerable well running economic system going on. It'd probably be ok enough as it is but thanks to all the big guys who just forced dependence on oil and the ones who forced to go with heavy industrialization we have what we have today - a big fat mess. We could've gone slower with the advancements but instead everything got rushed... And it seems like that hyper rush rush rush bullshit has to keep going on to keep everyone blind about all these things going on because we're all caught up in the imagination bullshit instead.
To get to your question though, realistically I would find it a pretty big pain in the ass if I really needed to magically disconnect from utilities but it would be manageable.
For solar, you can utilize LiFEPo4 batteries which are safer and last longer.
You still MUST buy batteries in cases where you want to utilize power and that's on top of the panels (which fortunately do have a much longer lifespan, but still, very expensive)
The problem here is that everyone is so reliant on some sort of 3rd party shit to just exist. I'd be ok living in the woods and burning wood for fuel for crying out loud. I could read books for entertainment. But I'll still have to figure out and rely on others for additional food.
There is no clear solution to this problem, society as a whole needs to really be fixed so that we can have a tolerable well running economic system going on. It'd probably be ok enough as it is but thanks to all the big guys who just forced dependence on oil and the ones who forced to go with heavy industrialization we have what we have today - a big fat mess. We could've gone slower with the advancements but instead everything got rushed... And it seems like that hyper rush rush rush bullshit has to keep going on to keep everyone blind about all these things going on because we're all caught up in the imagination bullshit instead.
To get to your question though, realistically I would find it a pretty big pain in the ass if I really needed to magically disconnect from utilities but it would be manageable.
Yes, it's being reliant on potentially corrupt companies that's the problem