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    Water Collection/Use

    What happens when the cistern is full of water and it keeps raining? Does it overflow and spill out or what?
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    USEING WATER BARRELS !?!?

    I'm interested in doing an underground cistern to collect rainwater. We would need a pump to pump it out for watering things outside. Does anyone have any personal experience?
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    Which type is better: battery solar or tied into grid?

    The battery thing seems unappealing to me. Being tied into the grid, but turning the meter backwards sounds nice because it can obviously reduce the electrical bill, but yet you still have that safety net of being on the grid when the winters are dark. On the other hand, I'm not sure if it...
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    Rainwater collection/holding tank ideas

    I would like to have some kind of rainwater collection off my house someday, which could collect into an underground/buried tank and then be pumped up for use of watering gardens. Has anyone done this?
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    New member, hello

    Hello. I'm new and I'm looking forward to learning things, getting ideas, and conversing with like-minded people. I'd like to learn about frugal house construction and energy saving ideas.
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