Loading ...I have a ham radio friend that lives part time in Hilo, and part time down in Micronesia where he has a house on Yap island. He’s a government telecom consultant there that set up shortwave radio communications at the schools on the scattered islands of the region. Yap has a population of 11,000 and electricity is provided by diesel generators. Cost is about $1.20 per kilowatt-hour. Most cannot afford electricity. He has a small half size refrigerator that he only plugs in when absolutely necessary if he has food to keep. He says it will eat his wallet faster than he can eat the food.
Heck, even here in the jungles of Hawaii island maybe half the ‘homes’ are off-grid with catchment water supply.