I enjoy the work - it gives me time to think about how to do the work easier :) we could use propane and a pump for the hot water, do do cook with propane, but we wanted to find an alternative way. Eventually we may heat water with other more passive methods. We have 1000 watts of solar panels, 800 amp hours of main batteries, and a gas generator and charger as a backup. We'll add more solar panels and batteries soon, as it is we only spend about $80 per year in backup generator gas, mostly in the dark 2 months of winter. We have a wifi router that gets internet from cell phone towers - we're in cottage country - 100 gigs of data per month :)