AR>I'd think that if you are running on solar mostly, your heating would not be
  >electric. Using electric power for heating is very expensive and inefficient
  >unless you happen to work on the thiiiin marging that alows for heat pumps to
  >be reasonable.

AR>If I was really off-grid I'd use wood. The advantage of wood for heating is
  >that you can use it for coocking at the same time you heat the house.

The problem there can be, if you don't own your own wooded lot, the costs can
be pretty high. I used a wood stove 20 years ago and was getting wood for
about $30 a face cord but these days that's up closer to $200. In cold weather
a face cord might last you a week..  So most people who spend a lot of time in
cottages in winter have taken to getting large Propane tanks and running heat
and cooking on that even if they have power to the house since it's generally
cheaper to heat with gas than electricity.

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