Life without electric

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With modern innovations such as double glazing, effective whole house insulation, rocket mass heaters, solar hot water and even something like these http://www.permaculture.co.uk/readers-so...tta-fridge, then life would not be so uncomfortable. Could even be quite nice. That's the thing with a lot of Permaculture design, it's about using modern, intelligent and preferably low tech design and thinking, as well as updating and adapting older technology without chucking loads of unsustainable, energy intensive, solutions at the problem.