The trend toward homes that are powered by different energy sources, starting from wind turbines and solar assortment cells to hydrogen fuel cells and biomass gases, is one that must continue into the 21st century and beyond. We tend to have nice want of becoming additional energy independent, and not having to depend on the supplying of fossil fuels from unstable nations who are typically hostile to us and our interests. But even beyond this issue, we tend to as individuals need to induce “off the grid” and also stop having to be thus reliant on government-lobbying giant oil corporations who, while they’re not very concerned in any covert conspiracy, nevertheless have a stranglehold on individuals when it involves heating their homes (and if not through oil, then heat typically supplied by grid-driven electricity, another stranglehold).