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Got Sun?
Learn a new vocabulary! Take a refresher course on the electrical power of the sun and the wind! Although the enthusiasm of renewable-energy experts Ewing and Pratt might get a bit wearing, they’ve developed a nontechnical reference and guide for home owners thinking about pulling the plug on their utility connections. In fact, after a [...]
The Homeowner’s Guide to Renewable Energy
The coming energy crisis caused by a peak in global oil and natural gas production will profoundly affect the lives of all North Americans. As the price of these vital fuels rises, homeowners will scramble to cut their fuel bills. Two options for meeting the upcoming challenge are dramatic improvements in home energy efficiency and [...]
Power to Change the World: Alternative Energy and the Rise of the Solar City
After WWII, in a memoir entitled “The Gathering Storm,” Churchill described the buildup to war in terms that evoke uncomfortable comparisons. Today, the palpable sense of another storm gathering demands attention as the sources of instability, once underestimated, reach the headlines. But something crucially different underlies this new threat, something not seen before. While we [...]
Designing a Renewable Energy Home
This book helped tremendously when working with people to design their “dream house”. — Scott Quittem, BuilderThis book helped tremendously when working with people to design their “dream house”. — Scott Quittem, Builder
This book helped tremendously when working with people to design their “dream house”. –Scott Quittem, Builder
This book concentrates on selecting the most appropriate [...]
Renewable Energy Made Easy: Free Energy from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, and Other Alternative Energy Sources (Kindle Edition)
Studies have shown that the average North American family will spend more than a quarter of a million dollars on energy in a lifetime. What many other countries, including Germany, Spain, France, Denmark, China, Brazil, and even Iceland, have realized is that there is a better way to power our homes, businesses, and cars by [...]
Rating Home-made/DIY Renewable Energy Solutions
This is the first in a three part series looking at renewable energy products for the home.
In just the past six to twelve months the number of home made/do-it-yourself (DIY) renewable energy solutions has increased dramatically. And a growing number of innovative, low-cost renewable energy solutions are available online at Amazon.com, as well as retail [...]
Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems: Benefits and Risks (Hardcover)
With shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed and developing countries, a major focus has developed worldwide on renewable energy systems. Renewable energy systems include wind power, biomass, photovoltaics, hydropower, solar thermal, thermal ponds, and biogas. Currently, a heavy focus is on biofuels made [...]
The Homeowner’s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower (Kindle Edition)
The coming energy crisis caused by a peak in global oil and natural gas production will profoundly affect the lives of all North Americans. As the price of these vital fuels rises, homeowners will scramble to cut their fuel bills. Two options for meeting the upcoming challenge are dramatic improvements in home energy efficiency and [...]
Renewable Energy Made Easy: Free Energy from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, and Other Alternative Energy Sources (Paperback)
Studies have shown that the average North American family will spend more than a quarter of a million dollars on energy in a lifetime. What many other countries, including Germany, Spain, France, Denmark, China, Brazil, and even Iceland, have realized is that there is a better way to power our homes, businesses, and cars by [...]
Public funding for NJ Solar Manufacturer
PETRA SOLAR IS THE FIRST BUSINESS AWARDED FUNDING UNDER NEW JERSEY’S CLEAN ENERGY MANUFACTURING FUND, a New Program Supporting Manufacturing of Innovative Clean Energy Technologies.
South Plainfield-based Petra Solar, Inc. is the first business to be awarded funding under the state’s new Clean Energy Manufacturing Fund (CEMF). The program, specifically designed to support companies looking [...]
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