Texas has had this for some time now. welcome to the grid.
Get off the grid make your own power with hydrogen made from water the hydrogen makes electricty. It takes time to do this though.
ALso you could get a desiel engine and use hydrogen for the gas to run it and yo can be off grid.
Or just go solar
as making hydrogen and coupling with a fuel cell would be a nice clean operation....
but needs electricty in the first place to make h/hoo. unless ur using red dye and alumium and other methods of breaking the
H out of the water, but that requires the raw supplies where as electricly from solar/wind/water turbine/ can provide the
electricity to generator hydrogen all day long then used to power a generator.... many factors to consider on what would
work the best.... it is about storing the energy in whatever form it is ... which is hard.
hydrogen is the ultimate goal though storing it is hard unless u can make an on demand HO/H/HOO generator ... which is hard to do....
considering you need the free /solar/wind/water turbine to produce enough electrical power to keep the H output up enough to
be continually running an ICE generator then at that point u have to evaulate which is generating more power, the ICE running of H
or the solar/wind/water turbine output........ anyways...
real question for you.
is a diesel or a gasoline ICE easier to convert to run on Hydrogen?
there are some great chinese made diesel engines that will run off various waste hydrocarbon fluids... used oils....
problem with that even though cheap an easy you need an oil supply even if its your drained used motor oil from your car
when you change it. these are pretty robust little engines. I am dying to have one. or one of the units off a refirgerated
semi trailer... they incorporate cooling and a small diesel engine in one self contained unit that could be used for power
and heat genration... that would be a great unit to start tinkering with to make an all in one.. heating/cooling/power generating
unit that can run off multiple fuels with modification.
ya ya ... bunch a thoughts out there.. but whats really feasible for an off grid installation? i think the best solution is
far from being proven.