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Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook-12th Edition : The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies & Sustainable Livingby John Schaeffer |
| This fully updated classic of sustainable living technology tells how and gives you access to the world's most extensive selection of hardware to make it all happen. The Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook-12th Edition is the ultimate resource on renewable energy, sustainable living, alternative construction, green building, homesteading, off-the-grid living and alternative transportation, written by experts with decades of personal experience and a passion for sharing their knowledge. In print and regularly updated since 1982, the Sourcebook has sold over 600,000 copies in 44 countries. | |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Solar Power for Your Homeby Dan Ramsey |
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The Solar Electric House: Energy for the Environmentally-Responsive, Energy-Independent Homeby Steven J. Strong |
| Solar electricity is the ideal source of power for an environmentally-responsive home where it’s a luxury residence or a rustic vacation retreat. With the right design, the sunlight that falls on your homesite will power your home. Your solar electric system can also be easily configured to provide on-site recharging of solar/electric vehicles allowing you to meet your transportation needs with renewable energy. | |
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The Passive Solar House (Real Goods Independent Living Books)by James Kachadorian |
| This book offers a technique for building homes that heat and cool themselves in a wide range of different climates, using ordinary building materials available anywhere and with methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourselfers. A formerly patented design for author James Kachadorian's Solar Slab heat exchanger is now available for the use of anyone motivated by the desire to build a house that needs a backup furnace or air conditioner rarely if ever. This is a building book for the next century. | |
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Got Sun? Go Solar: Get Free Renewable Energy to Power Your Grid-Tied Homeby Rex A. Ewing |
| GOT SUN gets it right. Clear and concise, all the information needed by anyone who wants solar or wind energy. | |
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The Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbookby Inc. Steven Winter Associates, Michael J. Crosbie |
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The Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbook is an unbeatable guide for architects and building contractors who want to satisfy the growing demand for passive solar residential design. A complete revision of the bible of passive solar design originally published by the U.S. Department of Energy, this is the only comprehensive guide to adapting standard building practices to current passive solar applications. It supplies detailed, step-by-step information on all practical aspects of passive solar design and construction and fills you in on all the latest advances in materials and building techniques—including the most recent findings on material and assembly performance. You'll also find the latest techniques for computer simulation and energy analysis. |