Renewable Energies for Your Home: Real-World

Simple and Inexpensive Renewable Energy Solutions for Your HomeIt'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

Russel Gehrke is an engineer, inventor, and consultant well-known in alternative energy circles. He is the vice president of Ecosense Solutions, 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 Channeln++s Modern Marvels. Russel has built hot rods for Willie Nelson and custom motorcycles for John Paul DeJoria, the St. Louis Blues, and others. He is the inventor of n++The Reformer,n++ a patent-pending technology that processes ethanol in stationary engines in a much more efficient way. It reduces hourly ethanol use in irrigation systems by more than fifty percent, while improving emissions.

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Dale Wiley is the chief executive officer of American Green Holdings. Before starting the company, he had a successful trial law practice and also produced several records for his record label, Slewfoot Records. Wiley is a graduate of Washington University and the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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Foreword	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
My Path to Green	p. 1
It's a Gas	p. 2
Dream Big and Dream Often	p. 2
Successful Failure	p. 3
Willie's Willys	p. 4
Margaritaville	p. 5
Not Running on Empty	p. 5
Outlaws	p. 7
What's Next?	p. 9
On the Road Again	p. 9
Other Projects in the Works	p. 11
Cheap Heat	p. 12
Highway Power	p. 13
Algae Green	p. 14
My Path	p. 15
Energy Independence	p. 17
Money, Wealth, and Power	p. 18
Don't Ask, "Why?" Ask, "Why Not?"	p. 18
Energy Independence	p. 18
Carbon-Neutral Resources	p. 19
Needs and Wants	p. 20
Global Sustainable Development	p. 20
The Solution	p. 21
How We Get There	p. 21
The Problem	p. 22
The Solution	p. 23
How We Get There	p. 25
Complex Interdependence	p. 28
Conclusion	p. 30
Bibliography	p. 30
The Impact of Fossil Fuels and the Path We're On	p. 33
Moving Forward	p. 34
Dennis Weaver's "Ecolonomic" Institute	p. 34
Agriculture	p. 36
Industry and Manufacturing	p. 36
Energy	p. 37
Public Policy	p. 37
Interdependence	p. 38
Pollution	p. 39
Potentially Better Uses for Fossil Fuels	p. 40
The Shift to Renewables and Its Cost	p. 43
Energy Is the Ability to Do Work and Add Value	p. 44
Energy and Investment	p. 44
Fossil Fools	p. 45
Human Power	p. 45
Biomass Fuels	p. 47
The Fat of the Land	p. 47
What Is Biodiesel?	p. 48
"Wood" You Believe?	p. 48
Wood-Burning Tips	p. 48
Old Ideas Are New Again	p. 49
Food versus Fuel	p. 49
Hungry for an Answer	p. 50
Biofuel to the Rescue	p. 50
High Energy	p. 50
Return on Investment	p. 51
Sustainable Economies	p. 51
We Are the World	p. 51
Biodiesel	p. 51
Market Demands	p. 52
Diesel Power	p. 52
Future Demand	p. 52
The Critical Agricultural Materials Act	p. 52
Castor Oil Industry	p. 53
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Report	p. 54
CRP to Fuel	p. 55
Cleaner and Greener	p. 55
Rudolph Diesel	p. 56
How the Diesel Engine Works	p. 56
Biodiesel in Your Home	p. 57
How to Get It	p. 57
Ethanol	p. 58
It's Good to Be King	p. 58
Corn-Based Ethanol	p. 59
How Ethanol Works	p. 60
Ethanol's Future	p. 60
We All Could Use More Fiber	p. 60
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back	p. 61
Where to Get It	p. 61
Biomass Projects for the Homeowner	p. 63
Project 1: Biodiesel without Titration	p. 64
What Is Titration?	p. 64
Biodiesel Recap	p. 64
Settle It	p. 64
It's a Wash	p. 64
Biodiesel Tips	p. 65
Let's Start	p. 65
The Recipe	p. 66
To Wash or Not to Wash?	p. 70
How to Wash	p. 71
Make It Clear and Dry	p. 73
Where to Use Your Biodiesel	p. 73
How to Use it	p. 74
What to Do with the Glycerol?	p. 76
Project 2: Biolight Fire and Grill Starter	p. 80
Let's Start	p. 80
How to Use It	p. 82
Project 3: Bioburn Wax Log and Firewood Substitute	p. 83
Let's Start	p. 84
How to Use It	p. 85
Micro Biodiesel Plant	p. 86
Find Your Oil Supply First	p. 86
Where's the Good Waste Oil?	p. 88
Equipment	p. 88
Build Your Own	p. 88
Here Is What You Need and What You Do	p. 89
Let's Get Started	p. 91
Let's Brew	p. 93
How to Use It	p. 94
Biodiesel Combustion at Work	p. 94
Wind Power	p. 97
Where to Get It	p. 98
How Wind Turbines Work	p. 98
Wind Is Practical	p. 98
Size Matters	p. 98
Wind Turbines	p. 99
The System	p. 99
Stumbling Blocks	p. 100
Wind Project for Homeowners	p. 101
Project: Wind-Powered Clothes Dryer	p. 101
Like Grandma Used to Do	p. 101
What's My Line?	p. 102
Let's Build It	p. 103
What to Do	p. 104
How to Use It	p. 114
Solar Power	p. 119
Pure Energy	p. 119
Solar Lighting	p. 120
Solar Heating	p. 120
The Physics of Heat	p. 120
It's Clear to Me	p. 121
Solar Water Heating and Treating	p. 121
Boiling It Down	p. 121
Solar Electricity Generation	p. 122
The System	p. 123
Solar Project for the Homeowner	p. 125
Project: Solar Heat Collector for Inside the Home	p. 125
Shine On	p. 125
Solar Collection	p. 126
Let's Build a Solar Collector	p. 126
What to Do	p. 127
How to Use It	p. 131
Wind and Solar Hybrid Project	p. 133
Phantom Loads	p. 133
How Does a Hybrid System Save Money?	p. 134
Sizing the System	p. 135
Solar Installation	p. 135
Keep Them in the Sun	p. 135
No Obstructions to Sunlight	p. 135
Mounting Your Solar Panel System	p. 135
Into the Wind	p. 136
Wind Power Works Better	p. 136
Your Wind Power System	p. 137
Human Power for the Home	p. 139
What You Can Do	p. 139
Just Chill	p. 139
It's in the Air	p. 140
What's Up?	p. 141
Dust to Dust	p. 142
Clean Up Your Act	p. 142
All Washed Up	p. 142
Garden Spot	p. 143
Compost with the Most	p. 143
Add Some Sun	p. 143
Renewable Energy Providers	p. 145
Solar Electric Photovoltiac Systems	p. 145
Wind Power Systems for the Homeowner	p. 161
Wind Power Component Providers	p. 166
Renewable Energy Nonprofit Organizations	p. 169
Glossary	p. 177
Where to Find Out More	p. 187
Biodiesel Projects, Help, and Supplies	p. 189
Biodiesel Basics Starter Kit	p. 190
This Kit Includes	p. 191
Deluxe Biodiesel Starter Kit	p. 191
Ultimate Starter Kit	p. 191
Titration Help	p. 192
Why Titrate?	p. 192
Materials Needed	p. 192
Titration Instructions	p. 193
Accounting for Base Purity	p. 194
Additional Comments	p. 194
Titration Kits	p. 194
Magnetic Stirrers	p. 195
Index	p. 199
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