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Fabrizio Cardinali, age 72, says he has no use for electricity.

For more than fifty years, he has lived entirely off the public electricity network, or grid.

That makes him one of the few people in Europe unconcerned about rising energy costs this winter.

Cardinali lives in a stone house near Ancona, on Italy's eastern Adriatic coast.

By choice, he has no electricity, no gas, and no indoor plumbing.

"I was not interested in being part of the world as it was going.

So I left everything - family, university, friends, the sports team, and set off in a completely different direction," he said.

"You give something up to obtain something else that is more important," he sa