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Renewable Energies for Your Home

Real-World Solutions for Green Conversions (Tab Green Guru Guides)

All Categories > Engineering > Engineering - Architecture > Building

Authors: Russel Gehrke
  • ISBN: 9780071622851
  • Price: LE 38.40
  • Special Offer Price: LE 30.72
  • Number Of Pages: 224
  • Edition: 1 Edition
  • Publication Date: 2009
  • Categories Building  

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Description:

Simple and Inexpensive Renewable Energy Solutions for Your Home

It's not always easy being green, and sometimes it costs more than you'd expect to get an eco-friendly home improvement project up and running. Renewable Energies for Your Home gives you sustainable home energy solutions that won't drain your wallet or the power grid.

Get details on generating heat with biomass fuels and other ways to use biodiesel and ethanol in your home. You'll discover how to harness affordable wind power and soak up free solar energy. Filled with step-by-step instructions and helpful photos and illustrations, this hands-on guide will help you reduce your carbon footprint and increase your cash flow at the same time!

Renewable Energies for Your Home covers:

Energy savings and environmental benefits

Biomass fuels, including biodiesel, ethanol, used fryer oil, and wood

Producing your own biodiesel without titration

Assembling a biolight grill and fire starter

Making bioburn-a firewood substitute

Wind turbines

Solar lighting, heating, water heating, and electric generation

Building a solar heat collector

Creating a wind/solar hybrid electric system.