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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.
From the Foreword
The first conversation I ever had with Russ Gehrke went a little like this: "Hi, the name's Gehrke and I can build you a hearse that can use trash as a fuel," to which I replied, "Great, but can you build me a car that can run on food?" He replied, "Oh yeah, that's easy - what type of food, crawfish?" and then we both cracked up laughing.
Russ, the big friendly fella from Missouri, was the cause of both much amazement and laughter when it came to gearing me up with vehicles for a TV series titled Coolfuel.
He created a car that ran on donuts, orange peels, and dog food, and then a stretch limo powered by food, biodiesel, and ethanol, with solar power and a fuel cell just to give it some extra kick!
Having trawled the eco world for fifteen years, for every imaginable product or method that is both sustainable and fun, my first port of call is now my big-hearted mate from the States, Russ. He is both genius and nuts. Nuts because he will give anything a go, and genius because he can make the nutty ideas a reality.
In this book, Russ invites us into his super-sized world of eco-creativity and delivers an achievable "I can do this" approach to everyday living. Whatever shade of green you live your life in - lime green, dark green, olive green, or virgin green - Russ opens the door for us all to explore the possibilities in front of us.
Russel J. Gehrke, you are an inspiration, and if I ever want a vehicle to run on ferret poo, I'll come knocking again. Thanks for writing this book.
Shaun Murphy
TV Producer/Host
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1: My Path to Green. Chapter 2: Energy Independence. Chapter 3: The Impact of Fossil Fuels and the Path We're On. Chapter 4: The Shift to Renewables and Its Cost. Chapter 5: Biomass Fuels. Chapter 6: Biomass Projects for the Homeowner. Chapter 7: Wind Power. Chapter 8: Wind Project for Homeowners. Chapter 9: Solar Power. Chapter 10: Solar Project for the Homeowner. Chapter 11: Wind and Solar Hybrid Project. Chapter 12: Human Power for the Home. Chapter 13: Renewable Energy Providers. Glossary. Where to Find Out More. Biodiesel Projects, Help, and Supplies. Index. |
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