Free Utilities – Free Water & Free Energy

Imagine how much it could help your budget to get free utilities, such as free water and free energy. This page will list a few ideas on how to do that. Some ideas are more practical than others. Some are more substantial than others. Some may even have startup expenses. For example, if you live next to a stream you could potentially have free water, but you might want to use a purifier, which has an initial expense. As new ideas are discovered, they’ll be added to this page.

Free Water

There are a few home uses for water including drinking, cooking, bathing, cleaning, and gardening. Some of these ideas will be better for one use than for another. Drinking water requires the best purification, and gardening may require the least.

Commercial Water Resources

In at least one State (Arizona) it is the law to give someone a drink of water if they ask for it and if the water is available to give. That’s why water at fast food restaurants and other public establishments do not have a price in Arizona. Yet, you go to other places and they could charge 50 cents to $1 just for the cup. Public drinking fountains are also commonly available in city parks, public transit stations, churches, hospitals, schools of higher education, shopping centers, and many other public places.

You could potentially get free bottled water with Coupons, Free Samples, SWAG at Trade Shows, and product testing. Other beverages besides water could also be given away with these methods. If you get any water from product testing, it will probably be flavored water or vitamin water. See also Free Food.

Natural Water Resources

If you live next to a river, stream, lake, pond or other natural or man-made water source then you can potentially get water from that source for free, depending on whether the water is regulated by local laws. You may want to use a water purifier, especially if the water is stagnant, instead of moving. The flow of water in rivers and streams is purer by nature than water that is still.

You could dig a well to get water from the water table, depending on local laws. Traditionally wells had a bucket and pulley system, but modernly they’re often fitted with a pump to bring the water into a modern home plumbing system. Beyond the pump, well water may also require a purification system since contaminants from surrounding soil is often found in it.

Rain water runoff systems can collect rain water directly and from rooftops of homes. They usually involve a series of rain gutters and storage tanks.

Water can be collected from the air with condensation devices. The condensation devices can be commercial or home-made.

Free Energy

In his book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Chris Anderson argues that as technology improves, the cost of energy will gradually be cut in half over and over again until it’s practically free. However, that only means that the cost of harnessing the energy from natural resources could be free or nearly free. The commercial consideration is completely different. Those who gain profit from delivering energy will not give it away unless it can be leveraged to create profit somewhere else. Such a model works with Google and products with digital delivery, but not many other businesses. Software is a good example of how something can be free but is still widely commercialized. (For free software see Rebates, Public Domain, and Web Freebies)

The Myth Busters tried to siphon free energy by placing a large copper coil next to power lines. Electricity is simply the flow of electrons and the myth was that the large coil could collect random electrons that escaped the power lines. They didn’t have very substantial results, but they did have results – myth plausible but impractical.

Myth-Busted: Flawed Free Energy from power… by tsport100

Free Energy Generator?

Theoretically a generator with magnets and a strategic design will create perpetual rotations which constantly generate energy. This was first discovered on YouTube years ago by AF.c and it seems like if it were real it would’ve become more popular by now. According to PBS, perpetual motion machines are impossible.

Renewable Energy Sources – Get Paid To Feed The Grid?

Renewable Energy Sources could include solar energy, wind energy, hydroelectric energy, and geothermal energy. Renewable energies are each available at different scales from small hand-held devices that can charge a cell phone to large industrial facilities that can power a town or city. In order for the energy to be free for you, you’d need the devices that let you harness it.

Some cities and energy companies will pay residents if they feed the grid. You could get paid to produce energy with renewable energy devices.

Find tax incentives and other benefits for using renewable energy.

If you live on a coastline then you could potentially harness ocean energy. Ocean energy includes thermal power, tidal power and wave power.

Free Raw Materials That Can Be Burned For Heat And Energy (Biomass Energy)

Motors that burn cooking oil. Technically if a motor burns cooking oil and you can get used cooking oil for free from local restaurants, this would be one way to get free energy. This was more trendy years ago and it has been used in motor vehicles, but not necessarily practical.

The national forest service used to provide free trees to citizens but does not any longer. The USDA recommends to check with state foresters. You can potentially get free seedlings to plant a tree in your yard with your State’s Forest Service Nursery. Seeds are also a common freebie on Earth Day.

Get free wood scraps from lumber yards and home stores like Lowe’s and Home Depot, or construction sites. It’s possible that some of these scraps can be used to build furniture or used for crafts and other purposes. However wood burns when it’s any shape or size. Tree and bush clippings are commonly set out on the curb before bulk pickup in certain neighborhoods. You can go curb shopping to obtain free fire wood this way.

Certain areas of the country might have local regulations on burning fires. Make sure you are following all local rules and laws regarding fire burning.

Conserve Energy And Water To Reduce Waste And Costs

Using energy-efficient practices and water conservation would reduce costs. This is not actually free, but it is a way to spend less.

One simple way to reduce air conditioning costs in the summer is to shade your home with trees. Your energy company could have multiple programs to help reduce energy waste, such as a free trees program, rebates and discounts for new AC/heating units, or price plans that reduce the use of electricity during peak energy times.

Find out how to save energy with Energy.gov.

 

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