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Renewable Energies for Your Home: Real-World Solutions for Green Conversions

Authors: Gehrke, Russel
Division: Professional & Medical
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-162285-1
ISBN-10: 0071622853
©2009 | 1st Edition | 224 pages , Softcover
Status: Active, In Print
Price: US$ 24.95

Description | Features | Contents |

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

New Features:

?         Discusses biodiesel, ethanol, compressed natural gas, hydrogen, waste vegetable oil, and biomass.

?         For each product, provides the following information:

?          How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency; Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it;

?          Applications; Practical Projects; Where it fits in; Tips, Tricks, and Avoiding Trouble

?         Includes a source listing so readers can access the fuels discussed in the book

?         Forewords by Larry Hagman and Willie Nelson, two environmentally-conscious celebrities

?         Lead author is recognized as a leading voice in the environmental world, and has already appeared on several popular eco-friendly TV shows.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
Why do we need solutions? Problems with current fuels; How current fuels can be put to better use
2. Biodiesel
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency; Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it; Applications; A Dabbler?s Guide; Tips
3. Ethanol
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency; Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it; Applications; A Dabbler?s Guide; Tips
4. Carbon Natural Gas
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency; Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it; Applications; A Dabbler?s Guide; Tips
5. Hydrogen
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency; Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it; Applications; A Dabbler?s Guide; Tips
6. Electric/hybrid
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency; Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it; Applications; A Dabbler?s Guide; Tips
7. Waste Vegetable Oil
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency; Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it; Applications; A Dabbler?s Guide; Tips
8. BioMass
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency; Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it; Applications; A Dabbler?s Guide; Tips
9. Conclusion
We dug ourselves into a hole by choosing one solution for all our problems: fossil fuels. All of these fuels add to a solution. Biodiesel has the most potential short-term effect, but cellulosic ethanol and electric are excellent components. But we want to avoid choosing one solution and winding up back in the same place.
10. Sources