[stoneman24]

Up in Orkney on vacation, the pretty constant wind all year (according to relatives) with a little solar, battery storage and heat pumps, I reckon off-grid might be possible. Add in starlink for internet and I might just stay here.

Not sure of the cost (need to do the research) but all of the above are getting cheaper. A small wind turbine can’t be that costly, surely.

[infecto]

Wind turbines in my research are pretty terrible unless run at scale (massive). YMMV but when I last looked into it, small turbines tended to be 1) noise polluters, 2) not very large power generators and 3) poor build quality.

[eldaisfish]

small wind turbines have a terrible reliability and maintenance track record. They are not worth the investment.

[perlgeek]

The dilemma with wind turbines is that the small ones tend to be inefficient (and still much more expensive than solar), and large ones require huge up-front investments.

I'd love to be proven wrong about this though, if anybody has links to affordable wind turbines / generators, I'd be interested.