{"id":95257,"date":"2015-08-06T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=95257"},"modified":"2015-08-06T17:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:52:28","slug":"watch-this-is-what-a-completely-off-the-grid-house-looks-like-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/95257\/watch-this-is-what-a-completely-off-the-grid-house-looks-like-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: This is what a completely off the grid house looks like in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With news that load shedding will continue for the next 18 months in South Africa, Joburgtoday.tv has provided a sample of off the grid living.<\/p>\n<p>Johannesburg architect, Brad Clark, says he redesigned his home four years ago to save energy and to have a more reliable power system.<\/p>\n<p>And while the house has not yet had a power failure, Clark told Joburgtoday.tv that his neighbours are load shed up to three times per week.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the bulk of appliances in the home,including lights, dish washer, washing machine, tv, fridge freezer all work off electricity created by solar panels mounted on the roof.<\/p>\n<p>The oven and stove, he said, work off LP gas.<\/p>\n<p>Hot water is generated through a combination of LP gas (bottled gas) and bio gas.<\/p>\n<p>Clark said that he elevated the house off the ground &#8211; based on the theory that hot air rises and cold air sinks.<\/p>\n<p>He said that in winter, the houses is heated by using two wood burning stoves.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C33uWD_hvLU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Developed by the BrandTV Media Network, Joburgtoday.tv is a dedicated Online City Channel that informs, entertains, briefs and educates.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More on electricity in South Africa<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/79319\/this-family-lives-completely-off-eskoms-grid\/\">This family lives completely off Eskom\u2019s grid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/93743\/south-africas-biggest-wind-farms-vs-the-world\/\">South Africa\u2019s biggest wind farms vs the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/93426\/this-house-produces-more-energy-than-it-uses\/\">This house produces more energy than it uses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With news that load shedding will continue for the next 18 months in South Africa, Joburgtoday.tv has provided a sample of off the grid living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":79331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10261,26,10263],"class_list":["post-95257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-elecricity","tag-headline","tag-joburgtoday-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95283,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95257\/revisions\/95283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}