Renewable Energies
for Your Home covers:
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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
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Contents:
1. Introduction
Why do we need solutions? Problems with current fuels; How current
fuels can be put to better use
2. Biodiesel
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency;
Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it;
Applications; A Dabbler’s Guide; Tips
3. Ethanol
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency;
Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it;
Applications; A Dabbler’s Guide; Tips
4. Carbon Natural Gas
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency;
Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it;
Applications; A Dabbler’s Guide; Tips
5. Hydrogen
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency;
Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it;
Applications; A Dabbler’s Guide; Tips
6. Electric/hybrid
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency;
Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it;
Applications; A Dabbler’s Guide; Tips
7. Waste Vegetable Oil
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency;
Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it;
Applications; A Dabbler’s Guide; Tips
8. BioMass
How it works; Carbon footprint; Efficiency;
Strengths; Drawbacks; Where to get it;
Applications; A Dabbler’s Guide; Tips
9. Conclusion
We dug ourselves into a hole by choosing one solution for all our
problems: fossil fuels. All of these fuels add to a solution.
Biodiesel has the most potential short-term effect, but cellulosic
ethanol and electric are excellent components. But we want to avoid
choosing one solution and winding up back in the same place.
10. Sources
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.
Softcover
224 Pages
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