Offgrid is a daily audio summary of the latest ideas, innovations, products, and hard-won lessons for living autonomously and becoming more self-sufficient in energy, tech, food, water, shelter, and everyday systems. This 3-story episode draws from OffGrid and moves through two years ecojohn tinyjohn, what would be best, building codes.

1. Two Years Ecojohn Tinyjohn

The poster spent two years with a propane incinerating toilet that was supposed to solve waste handling without a septic system or leach field, and says it turned into a steady repair project. Before cutting holes in the cabin, the poster bench-tested it outdoors with the correct propane tank, regulator, and a temporary exhaust extension, and it still showed ignition and operating problems right away.

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2. What Would Be Best

Next up, What would be best. the poster trying to pick a future off-grid state for a skoolie-based setup with solar, a compost toilet, room to grow food, collect rainwater, and eventually build on raw land.

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3. Building Codes

Then there's Building codes. One person argued that building without code sounds liberating until the failures belong to your whole watershed or your neighbor's boundary line.

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That's the roundup.