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Couple who ditched the rat race to live off-grid in a converted yurt in the desert are completely self-sufficient and power their home through human waste and solar panels
2022-10-23
  • Whitney Newkirk, 33, and husband Trent, 26, escaped the city to live in a desert

  • The couple from Wisconsin have created a self-sufficient life in Joshua Tree

  • They now live in a converted yurt on their land, powered by sustainable energy
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  Or refine their own gasoline for their truck - doesn't look like it's an EV which runs on Solar and sh*t.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-10-23 15:05  

#8   claim they recycle their own human waste to power their gas cooker.

Biogas. About a decade ago Michael Yon persuaded General Petraeus that turning human and animal dung into methane suitable for cooking and electric power generation in closed septic pits as a healthy, low tech alternative burning dried dung patties was a good idea. There is a lot of free information on the internet on the subject.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-10-23 15:03  

#7  wonder if Whitney makes her own make up and hair coloring
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-10-23 14:30  

#6  Desert? Yurt?...and then there's herself. It's as though you join the Legion to forget, then she moves to Corsica.
Posted by: Cesare   2022-10-23 13:54  

#5  #1 Yep. That gal's mainspring is wound way too tight.

One haboob should take care of these pretenders.
Posted by: JHH   2022-10-23 12:15  

#4  ^ iow, Taco Bell won the National Park Service concession
Posted by: Glinetle Phiger5046   2022-10-23 11:15  

#3  A couple who escaped the rat race to live off-grid in the desert in a US national park are now completely self sufficient - and claim they recycle their own human waste to power their gas cooker.

So do they own the property in our National Park? I think not.

"This stew smells like shit. In fact everything does...Oh"
Posted by: Frank G   2022-10-23 11:10  

#2  Self sufficient in the desert? The chicklets who scrawled this article think driving to the Whole Foods in La Quinta is self sufficiency. Love the area though. I've given thought to retiring in Bombay Beach.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-10-23 11:06  

#1  That guy looks like he's a hostage in this marriage.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-10-23 11:01  

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