Renewable Energies for Your Home: Real-World Solutions for Green Conversions

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Simple and Inexpensive Renewable Energy Solutions for Your Home

It's not always easy being green, and sometimes it costs more than you'd expect to get an eco-friendly home improvement project up and running. Renewable Energies for Your Home gives you sustainable home energy solutions that won't drain your wallet or the power grid.

Get details on generating heat with biomass fuels and other ways to use biodiesel and ethanol in your home. You'll discover how to harness affordable wind power and soak up free solar energy. Filled with step-by-step instructions and helpful photos and illustrations, this hands-on guide will help you reduce your carbon footprint and increase your cash flow at the same time

Renewable Energies for Your Home covers:

• Energy savings and environmental benefits
  
• Biomass fuels, including biodiesel, ethanol, used fryer oil, and wood
  
• Producing your own biodiesel without titration
• Assembling a biolight grill and fire starter
• Making bioburn-a firewood substitute
• Wind turbines
• Solar lighting, heating, water heating, and electric generation
• Building a solar heat collector
• Creating a wind/solar hybrid electric system

Author: Russel Gehrke
Publisher: McGraw Hill Tab
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780071622851

About the Author

Russel Gehrke is an engineer, inventor, and consultant well known in alternative energy circles. He is a professional consultant and chief technical officer for Agrifuels, LLC and has been featured on the Discovery Channel and in several episodes of the syndicated television show Cool Fuel Road-Trips, his own pilot TV show, Eco-Outlaws, as well as the History Channel's Modern Marvels. Russel has built hot rods for Willie Nelson and custom motorcycles for John Paul DeJoria, Meryl Haggard, and others. He is the inventor of "The Ethanol Reformer," a patent-pending technology that processes ethanol in stationary engines in a much more efficient way.

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