The Renewable Energy Handbook, Revised Edition: The Updated Comprehensive Guide to Renewable Energy and Independent Living
The Renewable Energy Handbook, Revised Edition: The Updated Comprehensive Guide to Renewable Energy and Independent Living
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The Renewable Energy Handbook, Revised Edition: The Updated Comprehensive Guide to Renewable Energy and Independent Living - Product Description
This revised edition of The Renewable Energy Handbook focuses on the unique requirements of off-grid living as well as using "green" energy for homeowners who remain connected to the electrical utility. The book contains chapters on:
- Energy efficiency and economics
- Home heating and cooling and domestic water heating
- Photovoltaic, wind, and micro-hydro energy generation
- Battery selection and inverters
- Backup power, wireless communications, etc.
It includes comprehensive specifications for many of the products available in the market today.
Whether you are just curious or an industry expert, this handbook will show you how to stretch your energy dollars (doing much more with less) while powering your home with renewable energy. And, unlike fossil fuels or nuclear energy, renewable energy frees you from worry about dumping today's pollution on tomorrow's children.
Since its release in 2003, The Renewable Energy Handbook has been a top-selling technology book and is recognized as the best in its field.
This edition has been fully revised for 2010 and beyond. It has been increased in size to an easy-to-read 8 x 10 inch format, and it is augmented with hundreds of illustrations, line drawings, photographs, and appendices.
Author/engineer William H. Kemp is a leading expert in renewable energy technologies. He and his wife designed and built their own off-grid home, which has all the standard middle-class creature comforts while using no fossil-fuel energy. The author showcases an assortment of homes, including his own, to demonstrate real-world application of the technologies.
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Solar Electricity Handbook - Product Description
The Solar
Electricity Handbook is a simple, practical guide to using electric solar
panels and designing and installing photovoltaic PV systems.
Significantly updated for 2011, the latest edition assumes no previous
knowledge of solar electric systems. The book explains how solar panels work
and how they can be used. It explains the advantages of solar
energy and the drawbacks that you need to take into account when designing a
solar power system. As well as explaining the underlying principles, it provides a
step-by-step guide so that you can successfully design and install a
photovoltaic solar system from scratch.
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Accompanying the book is one of the most comprehensive solar resource
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questions about your specific project.
Why buy the Solar
Electricity Handbook?
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systems. - The Handbook is updated
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with information that is relevant to you and your project, wherever you
live in the world.
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