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The white metal is also much cheaper than gold, attracting a broad range of investors seeking more affordable safe-haven assets, and is widely used in industry—from the manufacture of solar panels to artificial-intelligence semiconductors.

Qualifying expenses are energy-efficient exterior doors and windows, solar panels, heat pumps, water heaters, and biomass stoves and boilers.

Electricity is provided from solar panels, while the toilet is compostable and located in a shack outside, where a donkey, horse, dogs, cats, chickens and ducks roam a clearing among the trees.

While there is increased interest in California to move off the grid with solar panels and batteries — especially as utilities expand the use of power shutoffs to prevent fire starts — completely off-grid homes remain rare.

Leasing land for turbines or solar panels brought in tens of thousands of dollars a year and kept many family farms afloat.