The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy

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HOME IMPROVEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION / RENEWABLE ENERGY
A VITAL GUIDE FOR SURVIVING COMING FUEL SHORTAGES BY TAPPING INTO RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES!
With this latest addition to his already impressive list of titles,
I Dan Chiras makes it as easy as possible for you to effect your own transition
away from fossil fuel dependence. I've never seen a more comprehensive,
better written, or better organized primer on this subject. — BRUCE KING, PE, Director, Ecologicol Building Network, and author of Buildings of Earth and Straw and Malting Belter Concrete
AS THE PRICES OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS RISE, homeowners are scrambling to cut their fuel bills and find economic alternatives to ever more costly fossil ftiels and nuclear energy. Responses include dramatically improving home energy efficiency and switching to clean, affordable, and reliable renewable energy resources to heat and cool homes, to provide hot water and electricity, to cook, and even to power vehicles.
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HOME IMPROVEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION / RENEWABLE ENERGY
A VITAL GUIDE FOR SURVIVING COMING FUEL SHORTAGES BY TAPPING INTO RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES!
With this latest addition to his already impressive list of titles,
I Dan Chiras makes it as easy as possible for you to effect your own transition
away from fossil fuel dependence. I've never seen a more comprehensive,
better written, or better organized primer on this subject. — BRUCE KING, PE, Director, Ecologicol Building Network, and author of Buildings of Earth and Straw and Malting Belter Concrete
AS THE PRICES OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS RISE, homeowners are scrambling to cut their fuel bills and find economic alternatives to ever more costly fossil ftiels and nuclear energy. Responses include dramatically improving home energy efficiency and switching to clean, affordable, and reliable renewable energy resources to heat and cool homes, to provide hot water and electricity, to cook, and even to power vehicles.
The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy helps readers understand the sometimes con-^ fusing array of renewable energy technologies and techniques. It begins with a discussion '' of the many ways we can slash energy bills while improving comfort in our homes, and \ then systematically examines practical energy options available to homeowners including:
SOLAR HOT WATER
SOLAR SPACE HEAT: PASSIVE and
ACTIVE SOLAR RETROFITS
WOOD HEAT
PASSIVE COOLING
SOLAR ELECTRICITY
• WIND-GENERATED ELECTRICITY
• ELECTRICITY FROM MICROHYDRO POWER SOURCES, and
• EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: HYDROGEN, FUEL CELLS, METHANE DIGESTERS AND BIODIESEL.
The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy provides readers a wealth of practical knowledge. With a complete resource listing, this clearly written and well-illustrated guide is a perfect companion for illuminating the coming dark age.
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Dan Chiras has done as much as anyone in America to promote and popularize the use of renewable energy. He works his magic again in The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy. As Peak Oil looms, his lucidity and clear thinking become our first line of defense.
— STEPHEN MORRIS, publisher and editor, Qreen Living: A Practical Journal for Friends of the Environment
DAN CHIRAS has studied renewable energy and energy efficiency for three decades and is a passive solar home design consultant. He lives in a state-of-the art passive solar/solar electric home in Evergreen, Colorado. An award-winning author of nearly two dozen books, Dan lectures widely on renewable energy and green building and teaches courses on renewable energy, green building and sustainability at Colorado College.
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