Author : Dan Chiras
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0865716862
Presents information on how to improve a home's energy efficiency and switch to renewable energy resourses to provide electricity, hot water, heat, and cooling for a home.
Author : Paul Scheckel
Publisher : Storey Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1612120164
Discusses renewable energy resources and provides instructions for creating energy-saving and energy-producing equipment.
Author : Sunset Books
Publisher : Sunset Books/Sunset Publishing Corporation
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN :
In a clear, nontechnical language, this book explains how solar heating works and how it can be applied to your home - in active and passive space heating, domestic water heating, and pool heating.
Author : Greg Pahl
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1603581561
"Natural Home Heating" is the first comprehensive guide to heating your home with renewable energy sources. Greg Pahl offers a well-organized, easy-to-understand tour of all available home-heating options, including traditional oil and gas furnaces, wood stoves and masonry heaters, active and passive solar systems, and heat pumps. Included is everything you need to know about the fuels, systems, technologies, costs, and advantages and disadvantages of each option. Pahl teaches homeowners how to retrofit existing heating systems and choose renewable replacements, or design an entirely new house that can be heated comfortably with minimal environmental and financial impact. Consider: - 95% of American homes are heated with fossil fuels. - Oil and gas prices are up by more than 20% as supplies dwindle and sources become less reliable. - Home heating costs could double or even triple in the event of a fuel crisis. - The fossil fuel economy is unsustainable. - There are viable, clean, healthy, and afford able home heating alternatives! Learn how to burn environmentally friendly bio-diesel fuels, not just in your car, but in your furnace. Find out how a ground-source heat pump works and why it can achieve 400% heating efficiency. Discover what it takes to make burning wood truly sustainable. Natural Home Heating explains all these details and more, making it unique in the marketplace.
Author : Dan Chiras
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0865716188
Solar energy is an abundant resource. Once a curiosity, solar electric systems are becoming commonplace. As we transition away from finite and polluting fossil fuels, clean, reliable, and affordable renewable technologies such as solar electricity will become the mainstay of our energy supply. Solar Electricity Basics provides a clear understanding of the sun, solar energy, and solar electric systems. It discusses the theoretical, practical and economic aspects of residential solar installations including: Inverters Batteries and controllers Costs of solar electric systems Financial incentives System installation and maintenance Permits, covenants, utility interconnection and buying a system. Whether your goal is to lower your energy bill through a grid-connected system or to achieve complete energy independence, Solar Electricity Basics is the introduction you need-no PhD required!
Author : Mike Sullivan
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1581575335
The do-it-yourself guide for converting your home to solar power Solar energy is clean, efficient, sustainable—and expensive. Or is it? Many homeowners simply assume that the cost of solar panels is out of their reach, but in reality, the technology is quickly becoming attainable for the middle class. Rather than leasing panels from one of those home solar startups (and letting them reap the financial benefits), why not join the thousands who are doing it themselves? In Solar Rooftop DIY, sustainable energy expert Mike Sullivan offers five design plans—ranging from a few simple panels to a complex, roof-covering array—for building a rooftop PV energy system for any home. Each plan has clear and detailed step-by-step photographs showing the installation process. Many of them require no additional labor—just a few days' commitment for the average weekend warrior. With energy costs only set to increase in the future, now is the time to make the switch to solar and start selling power back to the grid.
Author : Robert Ferry
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2019-11-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780578615981
In the near future we will be surrounded by the most diverse ecosystem of renewable energy technologies and energy landscapes, each a reflection of local culture and context. This field guide will help you to distinguish between a semiconductor-based artificial photosynthetic cell, a piezoelectric generator, a triboelectric fabric, or a dye-sensitized solar cell, just to name a few examples. It is a useful reference for designers, artists, architects, engineers, landscape architects, and anyone who wants to reduce the carbon footprint of the world by integrating renewable energy beautifully into buildings, products, cities, and artworks.
Author : William H. Kemp
Publisher : Tamworth, Ont. : Aztext Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2004
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780973323313
Hundreds of ways for city dwellers (and renters) to save on energy costs!
Author : Alex Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 1996
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780918249241
The updated 5th edition of Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings identifies the most energy-efficient home appliances by brand name and model number. Reader-friendly and packed with illustrations, this handbook helps any homeowner save energy and money. Chapters include: -- energy use and the environment -- insulating and sealing air leaks -- new window options -- space heating -- cooling and air conditioning -- water heating -- refrigeration -- lighting...and much more This book is as compact and efficient as its subject matter. Its 274 pages are crammed with money-saving information. A directory of manufacturers helps the reader access purchase information on recommended appliances.
Author : Dan Chiras
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780865718296
Power from the Sun is the fully revised and updated guide for those interested in generating solar electricity. Practical and accessible, it provides a basic understanding of electricity, wiring, and solar energy, and guides the reader through site assessment, providing a solid understanding of grid-tied and off-grid systems.
