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RE: Living in Luxury Off the Grid - My Own Very Best Lazy-Ass Way to Break the Power.
We looked into a grid-tie solar system, but I just couldn't justify the expense. Being entirely off-grid makes it a no-brainer for you. Have you ever heard of the Edision-cell battery? They are a good option for stationary, long-life applications. The design in so robust that some of Edison's originals are still working. Last time I checked there were a few manufacturers who were making them.
I personally didn't look into the type of battery that my husband chose but he tends to do a lot of research before investing so heavily in something we have to rely on. He says he doesn't remember seeing them in particular but there are a couple reasons he might have seen them and decided against them. One may have been the expense which has increase from hundreds of times to maybe thousands of times greater than that at which they were first sold. Each of the batteries we chose (14 years ago) cost over $400 then multiply by 24. Even at that price they were deeply discounted.
Doug is also pretty cautious about the research because so many batteries over the years have been banned due to catastrophic failures without any definitive findings for why they blew up/caught on fire/etc. He wanted some that were widely used (more of a pool to draw on) without having to have a lot of maintenance or a problematic failure rate.