IN 1980 when we bought 2 1/2 acres off the grid at first we used Candles with a mirror reflector for reading and heated our A-Frame especially when there was 7 feet of snow outside our house then with a wood burning stove my father welded up for me. He made it out of a water pressure tank from his 2 1/2 acres where he and I and my Mom and Friends built his retirement home from 1968 until around 1980 on weekends when he retired there with my mother above Yucca Valley, California between Yucca Valley and Landers. There were amazing views of 50 miles to 29 Palms there and views of Big Bear Mountains where we drove up a lot in 4 wheel drive vehicles up the dirt roads to there where there were old mines there too you could check out at that time still.
My father started with a gravity feed water tank at about 12 feet high off the ground of about 1200 gallons and then he increased the water pressure with a pressure tank and automatic pump system. Finally when the county piped water directly to his property he didn't need the water pressure tank anymore and welded me up a great Wood Stove for my home at 4000 feet on Mt. Shasta around 1980.
Anyway, the point is if you don't have solar arrays on your mountain or desert vacation or live in house if you are off the grid then as a back up still Aladdin Kerosene lamps are nice to have too because they are very very bright unlike most candles if you don't have a reflector for the candles for reading. What some people do is they have gasoline or diesel generators for too many cloudy, rainy or snowy days as a back up when they have solar arrays. But, if you like the quiet and don't mind the smell of kerosene, Aladdin Lamps are great too.
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