Renewable energy for your home : using off-grid energy to reduce your footprint, lower your bills and be more self-sufficient

Renewable energy for your home Using off-grid energy to reduce your footprint, lower your bills and be more self-sufficient

Alan Bridgewater

Book - 2009

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Subjects
Renewable energy sources.
Solar energy.
Biomass energy.
Water power.
Energy conservation > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Published
Berkeley, CA : Ulysses Press c2009.
Language
English
Main Author
Alan Bridgewater (-)
Other Authors
Gill Bridgewater (-)
Item Description
First published as: The off-grid handbook: London : New Holland, 2008.
Includes index.
Physical Description
192 p. : ill., plans ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781569755686
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • What is off-grid energy?
  • What will it power?
  • Location options
  • Scenarios
  • Urban scenario
  • Small-town scenario
  • Rural Scenario
  • Doing the work
  • Solar energy
  • Basics
  • Solar Basics
  • Advantages and disadvantages
  • What will it power?
  • Scenarios
  • Townhouse scenario
  • Hot-climate scenario
  • Country-cabin scenario
  • Systems
  • A passive-heating system
  • A natural-cooling system
  • A Diy flat collector
  • A Wide-angle collector
  • A thermosyphon vacuum-tube system
  • A small solar photovoltaic system
  • Hints and tips
  • Wind energy
  • Basics
  • Wind basics
  • Advantages and disadvantages
  • What will it power?
  • Townhouse scenario
  • A townhouse wind turbine
  • Country house scenario
  • A Country house wind turbine
  • Farmhouse scenario
  • A farmhouse wind turbine
  • Installing a guyed tower
  • Hints and tips
  • Wood fuel energy
  • Basics
  • Wood basics
  • What will it power?
  • Scenarios
  • Townhouse scenario
  • Country house scenario
  • Farmhouse scenario
  • Systems
  • Installing a wood-burning stove
  • Installing a wood-burning stove with a water heater
  • Installing a wood-burning cooking range for heating and hot water
  • Hints and tips
  • Bioenergy
  • Basics
  • Bioenergy basics
  • What will it power?
  • Composting toilets
  • Installing a composting toilet
  • A country cottage composting toilet
  • Woodchip systems
  • Installing a woodchip furnace
  • A woodchip heating system
  • Biodiesel
  • Making your own biodiesel
  • A biodiesel production system
  • Hints and tips
  • Water energy
  • Basics
  • Water basics
  • What will it power?
  • Pico-hydro turbines
  • Pico-hydro turbine scenario
  • Installing a portable pico-hydro turbine
  • Micro-hydro turbines
  • Micro-hydro turbine scenario
  • Installing a hillside micro-hydro turbine
  • Water Wheels
  • Making a prototype water Wheel
  • Installing a Diy water wheel
  • Hints and tips
  • Geothermal energy
  • Basics
  • Geothermal basics
  • What will it power?
  • Country property scenario
  • Installing a horizontal closed-loop system
  • Narrow country site scenario
  • Installing a vertical-loop system
  • Large property with a lake scenario
  • Installing a closed-loop system in a lake
  • Hints and tips
  • Gas energy
  • Basics
  • Gas basics
  • What will it power?
  • Small-country-farm scenario
  • Making a biogas digester prototype
  • Hints and tips
  • Storing energy
  • Insulation
  • Storing wood
  • Storing heat
  • Storing electricity
  • Storing water
  • Glossary
  • Resources
  • Index
  • About the Authors
Review by Library Journal Review

Authors of numerous DIY and self-sufficiency books, the Bridgewaters tackle a wide array of alternative energy. Each system is well explained, but the authors do not walk homeowners through equipment installation. Also, many of these alternative energy scenarios will not work realistically within city limits or in an established community with codes. Buy where needed. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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