The Homeowner's Energy Handbook

The Homeowner's Energy Handbook
Author: Paul Scheckel
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-04-29
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 160342847X

Are you looking for creative ways to lower your energy costs, generate more of your own power, or become less reliant on the grid? Paul Scheckel offers practical advice for taking matters into your own hands. Explaining the fundamentals of solar, wind, water, and biofuel energy production, Scheckel shows you how to build and maintain a wide variety of energy-saving and energy-producing equipment, ranging from thermosiphon solar hot water collectors to bicycle-powered generators. Use less energy, save money, and help preserve the environment.

The Homeowner's Energy Handbook

The Homeowner's Energy Handbook
Author: Paul Scheckel
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1612120164

Discusses renewable energy resources and provides instructions for creating energy-saving and energy-producing equipment.

The Homeowner's Handbook to Energy Efficiency

The Homeowner's Handbook to Energy Efficiency
Author: John Krigger
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2008
Genre: Dwellings
ISBN: 1880120186

In The Homeowner's Guide to Energy Efficiency, John Krigger and Chris Dorsi help homeowners set realistic personal goals for reducing their energy consumption. Their methods for making homes more energy efficient will also improve comfort, safety, durability, and resale value. They guide readers through the process of assessing current energy usage and predicting the benefits and estimating the costs of remodeling options. With projects ranging from simple fixes to large-scale renovations, this book offers solutions for the energy-conscious homeowner, regardless of budget, technical ability, or time.

The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy

The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy
Author: Dan Chiras
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0865716862

Presents information on how to improve a home's energy efficiency and switch to renewable energy resourses to provide electricity, hot water, heat, and cooling for a home.

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings
Author: Alex Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1996
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9780918249241

The updated 5th edition of Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings identifies the most energy-efficient home appliances by brand name and model number. Reader-friendly and packed with illustrations, this handbook helps any homeowner save energy and money. Chapters include: -- energy use and the environment -- insulating and sealing air leaks -- new window options -- space heating -- cooling and air conditioning -- water heating -- refrigeration -- lighting...and much more This book is as compact and efficient as its subject matter. Its 274 pages are crammed with money-saving information. A directory of manufacturers helps the reader access purchase information on recommended appliances.

Old House Eco Handbook

Old House Eco Handbook
Author: Roger Hunt
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0711239770

How should we go about making old houses energy efficient without devaluing future sustainability or the appeal and character of old homes by the use of inappropriate solutions? This practical and essential guide to retrofitting for energy efficiency seeks to provide answers to this and other the questions homeowners of old houses are asking. Whether your house is medieval and timber-framed or a Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian terrace, it can be made more energy efficient and sustainable, and this practical and comprehensive handbook will show you how. Revised and updated throughout, and with a foreword by Kevin McLoud, Old House Eco Handbook includes chapters on the building envelope; roofs and ceilings; windows and doors; walls; floors; paints; energy, airandwater; plus a brand newchapter on retrofit materials. In association with The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, this is a must have for owners of old houses looking to make their homes more energy efficient and sustainable. Chapters Include: 1. Old houses can be green 2. Old house to eco house 3. The building envelope 4. Retrofit materials 5. Roofs and ceilings 6. Windows and doors 7. Walls 8. Floors 9. Paints 10. Energy, air and water 11. Old house for the future

Power from the People

Power from the People
Author: Greg Pahl
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-08-13
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1603584102

Over 90 percent of US power generation comes from large, centralized, highly polluting, nonrenewable sources of energy. It is delivered through long, brittle transmission lines, and then is squandered through inefficiency and waste. But it doesn't have to be that way. Communities can indeed produce their own local, renewable energy. Power from the People explores how homeowners, co-ops, nonprofit institutions, governments, and businesses are putting power in the hands of local communities through distributed energy programs and energy-efficiency measures. Using examples from around the nation - and occasionally from around the world - Greg Pahl explains how to plan, organize, finance, and launch community-scale energy projects that harvest energy from sun, wind, water, and earth. He also explains why community power is a necessary step on the path to energy security and community resilience - particularly as we face peak oil, cope with climate change, and address the need to transition to a more sustainable future. This book - the second in the Chelsea Green Publishing Company and Post Carbon Institute's Community Resilience Series - also profiles numerous communitywide initiatives that can be replicated elsewhere.

Solar Electricity Handbook

Solar Electricity Handbook
Author: Michael Boxwell
Publisher: Greenstream Publishing
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2010
Genre: Photovoltaic power systems
ISBN: 1907670009

The Solar Electricity Handbook is a practical and straightforward guide to using electric solar panels. Assuming no previous knowledge of solar panels, the book explains how solar panels work, how they can be used and explains the steps you need to take to successfully design and install a solar electric system from scratch using photovoltaic solar panels. Accompanying this book is a solar resource website containing lots of useful information, lists of suppliers and on-line solar energy calculators that will simplify the cost analysis and design processes. Readers can also get in touch with the author directly to ask questions and get further support with their solar projects.