Solar Power Your Home for Dummies by Rik DeGunther is a well-written insight into saving money and greenhouse gas emissions. Using the Sun’s enormous heating and energy potential as a renewable resource plus a dash of do-it-yourself ingenuity, anybody on the planet can successfully harvest the sun’s energy.
Solar Power is the one stop guide for solar power information for the homeowner - everything from simple landscaping improvements and how to position your home with respect to the sun, to making outdoor showers, bringing light into your home, heating water and generating electricity with photovoltaic systems is covered in this definitive guide to solar energy.
The book also covers other solar applications, like batteries, heat storage, how to warm your outdoor pool and reduce dramatically your air conditioning and heating bills, while also increasing the value of your home in an ever increasingly green-energy conscious world. Homeowners can start with a simple energy and costing audit of their home, also included are some good pointers on rebates and how to take the risk out of solar renewable home power. You will be left wondering why you didn’t install solar panels years ago and why everyone else isn’t doing the same.
If you have ever needed the solar basics to dramatically improve your environmental home-energy footprint, you will find everything you need to know in this informative and useful reference.
Author Rik DeGunther is an energy consultant who specializes in efficient heating and cooling designs. His book is expertly presented, easy to follow and full of useful sketches, facts, figures and simple to follow calculations. This book really does take the dumb out of understanding how to scope out, buy and install solar renewable energy in your home.
If you have ever needed the solar basics to dramatically improve your environmental home-energy footprint, you will find everything you need to know in this informative and useful reference.
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Publisher: Wiley Publishing
366 Pages
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written by Joel Ritz , August 14, 2010